Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

All very sad 😢 i worked for 27 years in the UK and got out as the constant decline and lack of vision and inability to implement anything on time was depressing 2 year out and it appears nothing has changed. So many great people being poorly led such waste of potential. All the best to those who are still there.

how many times Xerox screws up? hundreds of times, please go out of business and let the other company's run it right........

Same path as Kodak. Xerox had so much money they could have chosen an emerging filed and dominated but their leadership has been horrible for decades. Yes, collect all your social engineering awards from whatever agency/media outlet -- but you need to provide a product/service of value. Xerox has become another USA Fortune flagship reduced to a hollow shell of its former self.

Nobody makes a bad mfp?! What about the 3655, 6400, 4265! Products so bad, the channels group screamed for experienced Xerox reps to come and fix them, when their own , poorly trained techs couldnt, and their customers were howling for blood!

You are correct that management lacked vision. It was easier to just sell a box as opposed to developing a new market or increasing our market share in existing software markets. As John Visentin stated, we developed a trillion dollar market that we're not part of. Many of the innovations out of PARC were misunderstood by the copier mentality executives. I understand that things have to change but those of us that are still here, at least for the next few weeks possibly, are getting a raw deal when it comes to the severance packages. We should be rewarded for sticking it out and trying this company successful.

Xerox is in the state it is in due to poor management. While managers were on the covers of different trade magazines collecting all of their accolades, they were putting the company in a bad position. Handing all of their core business over to Fuji Xerox over the decades. The ACS merger was a disaster only to separate off again a few years later. That was how Carl Ichan got his greedy foot into the door and now we are just a casualty of his money making machine. Leaders of this company lacked true vision and they were rewarded handsomely for their longterm failure. It is the employees whose lives get destroyed.

Right on point! However, better sales and faster delivery will not save the product in a "shrinking" market.

Mark my words! We need alternate channels - Dominate the 3D space - Build mountains, trees, houses, lands, defense aircraft with sharp and quick 3D designs and see the magic in the printing space. Hell! "cut the price" in half by building 3D Xerox Printers.

We are doing a Kodak.

So how far up in the management structure are you?