Like it never stops, a bit here, a bit there, a bit this week, a bit next week. Then a massive one, and the cycle continues. It kind of feels like this? I find myself spending a ton of time on this website and it surely does not feel like I'll be able to peel off as every week some radical sh-t hits the fan. Not sure.
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Its the new normal. Probably add it to the daily standup
@OP I keep telling people here to expect layoffs daily. I have since 2000, and I always see people go. Good people, hard workers. The lazies still around. This is tech, so always expect layoffs any day. I scratch my head wondering why people ask if we are having more.
wtf are you looking for exactly? a company that guarentees NO layoffs ever? Because guess what? Those don't exist.
Dell has been laying people off at various numbers for decades now. Sometimes it's a few people a week, other times it might be a dozen in a month. And as in previous years, it was thousands at a time. - which is not common - and dell has clearly checked off whatever boxes they had in which, layoffs are simply... steady.
If you want a job that doesn't layoff, create your own company.
The short answer is yes. Layoffs will continue - do not expect loyalty for years worked or any of that nonsense. Expect what we have all been moving towards :self serve, ai, less middle management, streamline no touch operations, automation. Keep your resume fresh and look into other areas of income just in case. In the meantime don't make yourself unwell with worry, it's pointless to stress yourself out.
This isn't because of Dell. The economy is in a depression not a recession they have to lay people off you don't see it because AI is keeping the economy from showing it. It needs to collapse to start the recovery process or needs to pull all the other industries out of the depression/recession conditions. Layoffs wont stop until that happens. Either the need for thr $ goes up ei: layoffs or government corrects lending rates and kicks the can down the road
@rz come on, we are not going to pretend that the scale of what's been happening recently is the same as in the past, are we?
They have been a permanent state of a layoffs since I started working in 2011.
The only difference in this decade is that layoffs are shared on social media etc, making it feel way worse.
Yes. Like any business or specifically corporation, constant layoffs are normal.
Ok dude, so dell fkd up during covid - like a LOT of companies - and overhired people. Told everyone to go remote, then realized that 90% of those panic hires weren't ever needed. Therefore got rid of the majority of them. They also previously aquired VMware and that made up for a LOT of people - well, they are all gone now since dell axed vmware...
Then it was due to shaky economics and like any smart company, they were trimming the fat. Then it became obvious that there is no reason to have 130k employees for a company that brings in less than most fortune 500 companies; meaning they went on a mass layoff spree for 5 years.
Now, we are at a point in which dell is acting like any other corporation. layoffs 24/7 but in trickles and here or there. i'm not sure what you are expecting but like, there is NO corporation that doesn't have year long layoffs or idk, no layoffs ever?
Just do your job, su-k up, and follow the rules
Since Dell leaderships lacks a spine and are worried about appearances, yes. Some companies at least had the decency to do this in big batches and be done with it, but the "dell family" doesn't give a sh-t because the addition of psychological warfare against the employees saves them some money by people quitting rather than waiting around for the gallows.
Well, they aren't giving statements under oath. lol
More corporate BS. They are doing a lot of internal hires. Watch next year's 10-K from the SEC. That's the only way you'll know what the heck is going on.
Yes. That is the Corporate Strategy for the foreseeable future.
stock is down, expect more
A question was asked to DS in a town hall meeting this week about how we were doing with reaching our reduced headcount. In pure politician style, he laughed about the insinuation that Dell were reducing headcount and simply said, "i have no idea where this idea has come from, we are hiring!"
Whatever happens, you probably won’t hear about it here.