Ok, I get the pull back and stinginess due to Covid - 2020-2021/2022 but cmon... that stuff is far gone now. The forced everyone remote which was great! They gutted the onsite medical clinic, took the gym away, and even pulled out the Corp WiFi switches/routers lol.
They claimed they didn't see us going back to office so people then used their OWN money to build an office at home. People moved to other states/cities as they now were full remote and not tied to a location.
Then, the VP of sales decides that he wants ALL SALES people to RTO 5 days/week. Ok fine. Then other VP's said that no, we won't follow suit and not 3 months later, a full blown RTO is issued. Quite clearly because of the Sales VP but even moreso because Musk, and other large corporations initiated an RTO. So Dell, like always, followed.
Now, this was very much obvious it was mostly to cause/force people to voluntarily quit as they knew it would and, they were already wanting to reduce headcount anyways. Well, it worked. They had 5 or 6 years of mass layoffs twice a year and FINALLY got to sub 100k headcount.
Then, in 2024? They offered remotes to go hybrid. Lasted for a year then they went "ok, now EVERYONE has to go to office every day!"
Stocks are at an alltime high right now, every quarter has been "record breaking" LOL... but refuse to promote in the US and give minimal below inflation raises. They stripped the cafeterias to utter bs and charge far too much for the food. They took away the free coffee machines.
It is almost 2027 and they still restrict travel to 99% of people - conferences would be nice to go to. They have been giving terrible raises, promotions - in the US anyways - have basically been non existent. Yet, have no issue spending THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars to fly out people from Ireland, put them up in a hotel, pay for their food, etc... to stay in Austin for 4 days.