Weathering the storm: Terminations and transfers: Uncertainty became the dominant theme on Jan. 1, 1984 for employees of both AT&T and the Bell operating companies

Life on the job is looking pretty good for George Maeda these days. Ever since the divestiture of the Bell operating companies, his work for AT&T Bell Laboratories on fiber-optic systems with high bit rates has proceeded at an invigorating clip. 6370699The pace of product development,” he said, “has gone through the ceiling.” So has the number of phone calls Maeda and his colleagues have received from job head-hunters interested in their talents.