Been really amazing how Swainson has managed to NOT get fired. Sales get worse and worse, yet Swainson manages go avoid the axe. Sales productivity per sales rep is astonishingly low. I'd be curious to find out what percentage of Software just got... — read more 

Do you know what's going to happen with our Consumer Division. I've been here for about 4 years now. Rumors are flying left and right - everyone is talking that Dell management is is planning to spin off the consumer division, it would be like an... — read more 

Former Quest was really hard hit. John Swainson has driven this thing into a ditch but showed not contrition whatsoever.

Stayed up watching this DSG town hall thing at home. I understand what they are saying but I don't understand what they are saying, very funny. If someone can translate their business-speak into English, I will be very happy. Just what areas are... — read more 

Lay offs started yesterday and will continue through Monday. I heard today was upper and middle management but there is a possibility of the entire Dell Software Group being let go. If you work here tread lightly and hope you tread thru the storm

No, wouldn't expect any till this time next year at the earliest. They've told media there's nothing planned at this time, and have even made a jab at HP saying "HP is way better at layoffs than we are". The deal won't be formally complete until this... — read more 

Sorry if you didn't get a heads up. Lots of glorious decimation for the software group.

True?

BIG LAYOFFS COMING THIS WEEK. CUIDADO.

One of the founders of the EqualLogic group in Nashua, that Dell bought out a few years ago, has set up a new Company in the building next door to Dell's present Nashua location and is steadily siphoning off the best people from Nashua. No point in... — read more 

Dell Services in Plano will be affected by global layoffs as well

was informed 4 weeks ago that I have somewhere between 1 and 3 months to find a job or I'm out the door, (and no one is hiring internal at Dell). Rational from my manager is that he thinks he can get more work out of the the person he's replacing me... — read more 

MessageOne which Dell purchased in 2008 http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/12/us-dell-messageone-idUSWNAS053520080212 has been sold. The employees that were part of the group are no longer Dell employees.

The layoff have begun again for 2015.

Is it true they will be offering VSP again, starting in June. I hear many rumors and people have been saying it's coming for a while. I'd love to take it this time as I am about to quit anyway

Today, layoffs in Massachusetts for some Dell employees (Inside HPHC, a Dell contract).

Prosupport Nashville is shutting down April 29, 2015. Nothing published about it though. Just have to get the word from a Dell employee.

Just heard from a buddy that ProSupport is getting cut, 100% gone - cut completely. This will happen in February 2016.

Do we have more info on this? Who in marketing is being laid off, how many, locations, levels, etc?

Rumors of VSP in 2015 are heard again...

We have executives coming to discuss the "state of the business" with us tomorrow...as well as consultants coming to basically watch and see what jobs they can take and offshore for less money. I knew I shouldn't have taken this job when it was... — read more 

What are your thoughts, things do not look good.

2 of my managers jumped ship within the past 2 weeks, and our director announced a 'reorganization' to our department last week. They've been having us track our productivity for the past month....an electronic version of The Bobs. I'm terrified. I... — read more 

This is pretty much the fact, nothing to be changed here. I was hoping that we'll be cooler but nothing panned out - Good luck to all, there will be a ton of cuts.

I heard about the reorg in procurement, any more concrete info from Dell insiders?

Have you heard about the potential major reorg in Q4 2014? I hear that many locations might be affected: Round Rock, Lincoln, Birmingham, Austin, New Jersey, Dallas, Boston, Plano, Atlanta... Now, all of this may be just a rumor, but wanted to see if... — read more 

Mark my words - Dell Plano layoffs are coming fast - downsizing will be big and job cuts will affect all groups

Any job cuts planned for Round Rock - I am super anxious and I'd appreciate any info you may have on Dell's plans to downsize, cut jobs, lay off people - you name it. Thanks!!!

I want to support made-in-USA products, but it's really hard to do so. It's virtually impossible to buy "Americans" nowadays.

The PC industry is changing, fast, rapid, but it is not completely dead. If eliminated Dell employees chiped in $10K+ each and few thousands of them started a company they could have put together tens of millions of dollars. Focus on one niche that... — read more 

Eliminating 15K positions today, getting the reorg right, and being able to hire talent again in the future is painful. Yet, it is certainly better than dropping 1K every quarter, year after year, never really resolving the problem (and killing the... — read more 

Dell layoffs have been widely rumored for almost a month now, widely reported, and seem very likely. What's even more interesting, and missing from the reports, was the news (which we can attribute to a quote at finance.yahoo.com) from Dell, and this... — read more 

Cuts in ever department, EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! Some of our departments have already cut to the bone and the execs are still asking for an additional 10 to 20 percent cut regardless of the current state. It'll be brutal, and I think we'll have very... — read more 

Dell has horrible consumer support - now imaging what's going to happen once they start laying even more people from this function - I wander if it will be worth even bothering buying anything from Dell once the hits take place. I think Dell will be... — read more 

http://www.zdnet.com/dell-layoffs-this-week-15000-to-be-hit-report-7000025879/

This in the plans, we'll end up with tens of thousands of people let go by the end of 2014. Mark my words, Dell will be cutting pretty deep this year - downsizing will be our #1 keyword.