If you got a chance to talk to JV about the way he runs the company, what would you tell him? What things and processes would you change or remove and what would you add? Big or small? I know many here think Xerox is beyond saving but I still believe it's too big to simply disappear. I can't be the only one who feels that way.
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Why all the negativity on this post? I think it's a great question. All most of you do is complain and criticize, and never mention what you think would be the right thing to do. I am interested to hear how the collective genius here would remedy things.
I don't sell equipment either, but I'm still being told to return to the office. It's because the company wants to present the picture that the office environment is "back" after covid.
It's ironic and quite telling that during the lockdown and when there were govt handouts, the Co. was promoting remote work enablers. As soon as the lockdown waned, those enablers and the standard fare remote work means we're not acceptable to almighty XC leadership. BYW, not everyone sells equipt here.
They want everyone back in the office because it's too hard to sell office related equipment to a customer when they find out your whole workforce is working from home.
Why hasn’t Xerox changed with the times for the employee? I’m a millennial, capable of working from home.
Xerox may have built their business on people in the office but they also built their business from print which has evolved.
Their is cost savings, huge savings in this, why isn’t it being done to change with times?
Says the guy always on here posting insults. We know who's scarred and crying about it, haha...
Haha some people are so emotionally scarred over a job. Especially a corporate one at that. As if it’s a person. I can only imagine how pa--y you guys are in your personal relationships.
And salt, jet fuel and bleach so nothing grows there for 300 years.
A reminder of a corrupt way of life.
If it but them?
@2qmz+1gdlLks6. EXACTLY
Something like a computer gui interface that used tiny pictures that represented computer programs that you open with a device that hovers over it and allows the user the select it without typing a ton of commands! That’s what we need. Oh wait….
Let’s invent a time machine and go back to the 70s and prevent the The mo--n execs at the time from letting that walk out the door for free.
Xerox wouldn’t know a new idea if it but them in the you know what’s.
Zip it.
wow great advice. just start up a multbilion dollar company out of thin air. Its so simple happens every day. you must be a xerox exec
Printers are kind of like horse saddles... they had their day until cars came along. They're still around, sure, but hey, you can't really blame the horses for lack of sales, eh? Same thing with printers. Kids now think business cards are quaint, an old fashion thing. They sign contracts digitally. Read everything online. Rarely print anything. Rarely even in the office anymore. Its a new age.
The only way to fix xerox is to go with the times. Start fresh by seriously cutting into xerox and using the saving to start something that actually is with the times, that sells.
I'd slowly get rid of the printer business, completely. But I'd slowly ramp up on something new that sells. That has NOTHING to do with printing. Not even that 3d metal cr-p that no one buys. Gimme a break there, ha!
I'd involve the heads of production and ask them what else can we do because your job depends on it. Surely there may be something we can manufacture in New York with all that gear that isn't printers.
I'm not smart enough to figure out what we could do and that's fine. There's a lot of smart folks out there who could.
Myself I recycled myself in a fintec startup and found peace and happiness there.
Good luck to everyone.
Fire every manager, from the lowest of the front line managers, all the way up to the CEO. Every last one of them is incompetent.
Convert Webster campus into a legal weed farm.
Put in a corp. suggestion if you want a pink slip, not the first time.
All they have to do is learn how to fix stupid!
What would I do? I would stop ridiculous posts like this from being put up. Everyone here is now d-mber from reading it. Get a life.
Can’t believe there are still people who think decades of mismanagement and meaningless innovation can somehow be rectified by a communal suggestion box.
Unless xerox comes up with a printer that runs on its own fusion and captures/stores carbon…this company has run its course.
Yes, you're the only one that thinks that way.