After working for them for 20 years, I just feel that they have lost their focus on the client and their employees. When you are running a business, it’s been said that if you take care of your employees they will take care of the customer. This is... — read more
This reporter needs to know the real truth
What a crock! Johnny V neglects to mention how he's screwing over thousands of employees and outsourcing the jobs to boost their stock prices! https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/xerox-to-close-about-half-of-xbs-offices-sources
How many Xerox people were sold to HCL?
Is there an official number who have a new master now?
I9 Emails
Did any of the cores receive the I-9 emails today and did they send two different ones. We all received I-9 letter today and there’s one they were sent to about 8 to 10 different people which has one person from each department which included the new... — read more
How senior leadership jealousy ended Xerox as we knew it.
Ursula was hell bent on putting Kevin Warren in the CEO role upon her exit. She fought hard to make this happen. She failed. Kevin was p-ss-d and held a bitter grudge. So much so that he sabatoged Jeff Jacobson every chance he could. Kevin has since... — read more
Does HCL offer new employment terms for re-badgers?
How does that process even work? When you agree to rebadge do you just sign the document and continue working with the same condition as when you were a Xerox employee (same pay, same benefits…) or does HCL offer you different terms? I apologise if... — read more
Marketing
Does anyone know what will happen to roles such as marketing roles (ex. open houses, tradeshows, creating collateral for sales team, setting up travel arrangements etc.) I feel like these roles would be hard to outsource or rebadge.
C-Suite Stock Ownership - and impact on the Holding Company vote
I have a question for anyone who may know. What percent, collectively, does the Xerox senior executive staff own of Xerox stock, and will that % be a factor when the vote takes place at the annual meeting on approval of the holding company? As we... — read more
Global Supply Chain?
I've seen a lot of talk about Global functions and orgs being hit. Does anybody know what's happening with Global Supply Chain?
Xerox will not end any time soon
I see a lot of this talk on here and nothing will meet the histrionic “end” that people talk about. Xerox as a brand has a lot of power in the name and will be around for, I’m guessing, “forever” as far as most people are concerned. It’ll be around... — read more
Training our replacements
I tried to keep a positive outlook on this "re-badge" announcement, but yeah....do the research and think. HCL's intention is to learn the process, reduce the amount of "re-badged" Xerox/GIS employees by having us train our own replacements, and... — read more
Is this even legal? --- your lack of response will be considered a decline and voluntary termination from Xerox
---Start HCL Email Body---------------------------------------------------- It has been brought to our attention that you have not submitted a response to HCL regarding their offer of employment. Please respond to * (HCL HR Representative) at... — read more
This whole HCL thing is just an absurd debacle!!!!
Never in my life have I ever been subjected to a situation like the one going on now. Nobody can get clear cut answers and just when you think we do, boom we get told it's wrong, again!! To split companies with badged and unbadged employees is... — read more
The end of Xerox - What time is it?
If this was clock and Xerox as we know it ends at 12:00, how close are we to the end - what time is it now? I'll start this off by suggesting it is 11:52:45
Free Advice
For those still at Xerox - get out and get out quick. Being a former Xerox employee and leaving on my terms was the best decision I’ve made. There are companies out there that will appreciate your skill set and offer a much better life than Xerox... — read more
New Internal Contract Review Process
Any thoughts on the new Internal Contract Review Process which is Operations led, by the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) for Xerox's top 200 accounts in the US and 50 in Europe. The training class refers to the SDM as the CEO of the account. Not the... — read more
What severance do I receive?
Hypothetically, If the part of the company where I work would be sold off to another company would I receive Xerox standard severance, or would I then have to receive the severance package offered by the company that acquired that certain part of... — read more
Check your pockets - We are missing 150 million dollars
I am trying to understand where the missing 150 million dollars went! Do you have it? Do you know who does? I was just curious because that is the amount of the Trump Corporate Tax reduction for Xerox and I wanted to see if you have seen an impact to... — read more
JV's Offer of Employment
While Xerox continues to screw their employees and partners and tell them everything is great...: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108772/000119312518164259/d430950dex104.htm Thoughts?
It's a Layoff with a severance "job".
I'm 62 had 30 years at 55 and now this. I consider it a Layoff with a severance job for X amount of months. I work the hotline and make a Xerox wage, not hard to consider these customer support jobs being right coasted in a bit. You can see that the... — read more
Buildings
Since xerox had JLL come in and check out our core buildings, are they going to put new Xerox logos on them in place of our core names?
How is refusing to rebadge to HCL treated?
What if one would refuse the offer to rebadge to HCL? Is that treated as practically quitting your job,or are you in a position to refuse without consequences? I mean, if you’re laid off after refusing, is treated like a standard layoff where you get... — read more
Another Chief? Seriously???
Chief of Communications & Marketing? Marketing what??? Communicating what to the market other than bull. The rest of the chiefs have pretty much destroyed anything of value. You would have to be an absolute id--t to believe anything coming out of... — read more
How to become a technological powerhouse
Steps to becoming a technological powerhouse: Have your Corp SVP, CHIEF TECH OFFICER go on a webex and describe all of the technology that the company is willing to invest in for the future and how excited he is. Announce that you are now a holding... — read more
Xerox is dying
Xerox can not permanently ride an annuity that is shrinking at a massive Compound annual rate. These decisions are not turnaround strategy related. They are to aggressively shrink the cost basis very quickly to pump up an eps with a terrible revenue... — read more
Is this really the end of Xerox as we know it?
I don’t have to tell anyone about the state that the company was in and all pointed towards the fall, but is this really the end of Xerox in a form that it existed in? I certainly didn’t think it would come so soon, but with the recent moves it seems... — read more
I just don't get how HCL is making $ if they are paying us exactly what Xerox was
I heard that the 3,000 guatemala employees were badged over too, so what does that tell you? Do we think this was just done so when Xerox sells it will make them look better, I just don't get how HCL is making $ if they are paying us exactly what... — read more
What sitcom/movie best describes xerox state of affairs?
Mm... Office space?
This is how spin is done!
https://www.xerox.com/en-us/insights/just-100 Of course, Forbes has the wrong CEO noted.
Will analysts all become remote install analysts?
I asked on the 6:30pm ET Q/A session if the analysts will become Remote Install Only analysts, but didn't really get a response. I wonder if they switch us all to remote install analysts, then sit back and watch how many each of us complete per day... — read more
HCL introduction calls have are not productive
The calls we have attended are not only impossible to follow but, are vague in shedding light on many unanswered questions. Considering IF you even received the invites as it was pointed out, there are many errors on the rebadging list, invites, and... — read more
Theme Song
What song best desribes the current state of affairs at Xerox?
What happens next with Support Analysts
It won’t be long before the Xerox internal memos tell sales and service that the HCL expense is to high and start limiting and reducing analyst support. That will be followed by an internal memo prohibiting HCL analyst support. That will be followed... — read more
HCL wants to grow
Hi all - there’s understandably a lot of apathy right now and fear of jobs. But surely you have to get onboard with the situation and make an effort out of it with HCL. HCL are desperate to shed their Indian IT image and are not going to dispense... — read more
People should be hoping to be laid off
Folks, Xerox is as done as it can be. Those laid off are the lucky ones, the rest of us who are still stuck here are the ones everybody should be feeling sorry for. I'm just hoping my name is on one of the layoff lists before the company goes... — read more
Playing with fire?
Am I the only one that thinks that performing a larger amount of layoffs in these circumstances is risky for a company whose reputation is on the line as it is. Anybody can say what they want, but with a bigger reduction of the headcount experience... — read more
Global Service changes are WRONG
Bad News!!! The entrepreneurial spirit of Global companies was simple. Service delivery was lead by the local President, with local commitments. Now all Global Service people/technicians report to regional Service VP's. This strategy didn't work for... — read more
Xerox job reductions: New York State and community leaders take note
Wake up you as will be taking a hit to your tax base. Most Xerox employees loosing their jobs are leaving New York State. Especially those currently employed on the Xerox Webster NY Campus. Monroe and surrounding counties job markets cannot support... — read more
Employment Lawyer Feedback (NY)
If you went to an employment lawyer in NY what advice did they provide? Please share any nuggets of wisedom they provided.
XBS Cores-----if you haven't been badged over yet please protect yourself
Please start now and consult an employment attorney to know your rights, for the ones recently badged, they were not given the time to do this. Get your resume updated, get feelers out there, don't wait because your time is coming. This past week was... — read more