A friend of mine used to work for AT&T. They quit a few weeks back after what they described as the final straw of AT&T showing how little they cared about employee well-being and how they didn't want to work themselves to death. Apparently, multiple employees (he knows for sure about 7) have had heart attacks or major health problems from overwork and stress on the teams he's worked on, including at least 2 in the position he was in before quitting.
This final straw was because they were on a call with management and management was gossiping about, and making fun of, an employee who had recently died. Turns out that for the final few weeks of his life, he had been working remotely and taking calls while in his hospice bed. He was literally dying and hadn't stopped working. My friend just found out from someone who knew him that this was because AT&T apparently wouldn't give him time off (he had used up what he had) and his family would not have gotten certain benefits if he had quit (or been fired for not working) before retirement age or death. So instead, he kept working remotely in hospice until he literally died. Apparently, he took a few calls and was still working within 24 hours of his death.
Blows my mind companies could not only be this heartless to force an employee into a situation such as that, but also for management to effectively gossip about and make fun of what happened… insane.
Then again I never expected much from AT&T after all the stories I have heard about them and how they treat their employees (I used to work in that industry for a short time). The number of horror stories about how employees are effectively robots in the companies' view and should be working as much as humanly possible.