Topics regarding layoffs at DXC Technology

Topics regarding layoffs at DXC Technology

Feb 14th - a date for your diary

February 14th 2019 is the date for Q3 earnings report. Will it be a lovely Valentine's Day for Mikey with the shareholders kissing him passionately? I suspect not. However, as with every earnings announcement that might look bad (and this can't be... — read more 

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| 1273 views | | 1 reply (December 21, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WI78KCV

AMS All Employee

So far compensation is now an entitlement. And I’ve heard for a decade how we must update our skills but nobody ever says what those skills are to be. And a new company is already playing catch-up: incredible.

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| 2760 views | | 19 replies (last December 20, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WH3AAt2

Mr & Mrs Scrooge will have a good Christmas!

Always nice to see your CEO and HR chief selling a total of $5.5m of shares to no doubt pay for all the lavish Christmas parties we’ll have! We best be grateful! The CFO sold 3.3m worth so he’s obviously got the drinks bill to look after! Let’s get... — read more 

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| 1660 views | | 10 replies (last December 21, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WHkkWGQ

What's the point of making more people redundant?

I don't see the point of making more people redundant. DXC were winning work and not having the people to do the work. I thought DXC was supposed to be in growth. If DXC are prepared to make more people redundant I believe they need to be prepared... — read more 

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| 2290 views | | 7 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WHFEAHF

Clown show at DXC

DXC is taking out thousands of employees next week. Merry Christmas! Losing business by the millions. Lawrie and his GF, Jo Mason couldn’t run a lemonade stand. He hates clients. Worst company on the planet. SEC is queuing up an investigation (about... — read more 

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| 6360 views | | 27 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WC6q1GY

DXC Technology Announces Additional Analytics Migration Factory Locations in the Philippines and Poland to Accelerate Client Migration to Micros

BEGIN BS SPIN Business Wire Business Wire•December 11, 2018 TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Centers in Manila and Warsaw will help global clients gain greater value from their data and analytics With continued strong demand for the migration of... — read more 

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| 1950 views | | 11 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WAc1n2w

One thing is for sure

Well one thing for sure with the latest reorganization people will be losing jobs with DXC. One thing that doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would a company tell an employee you either start working for a vendor or have no job/relationship with DXC... — read more 

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| 2440 views | | 5 replies (last December 11, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WyH3eLt

Layoffs this week?

Is it true more layoffs are expected either Tuesday or Thursday?

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| 4730 views | | 22 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WysXozj

Another Round

I was recently part of another round of layoffs at DXC. I know several people who were also let go. I wonder what the total RIF is?

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| 2440 views | | 6 replies (last December 11, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Wx0qIfY

Millennials don’t want to commit to one company

Most Millenials aren't looking for permanent jobs. Everything is a part-time gig for them, and they usually have a couple of gigs at a time. Jobs are a revolving door. I don't think we have to worry about them showing loyalty to a c-ap company like... — read more 

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| 1540 views | | 5 replies (last January 16, 2019)
Post ID: @OP+WvdTTSk

The best ways to get a new job

If you are considered senior management, headhunting agencies and LinkedIn are the way to go. ALONG WITH Networking. Reach out to people you know at the companies / jobs you see advertised. If below senior management, local placement agencies... — read more 

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| 1400 views | | 4 replies (last December 7, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WtNTP8T

Company doesn't give a damn about you

DXC is the place you wait for WFR, when you realise this company doesn't give a c-ap about anyone and doesn't reward hard work no payrises no matter how good or hard you work compared to anybody else in your team. Everyone is treated equally bad from... — read more 

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| 2440 views | | 7 replies (last December 16, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WsywZQ7

Help

We all know the company is cutting down its employees count. What I want to know is where are all these jobs that people say they are getting? If they are here in the UK or in the US and how to get them ? Have you used agencies or what to find them... — read more 

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| 1910 views | | 6 replies (last December 5, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WsOF3Ty

A depressing Christmas for DXC workers in UK and Ireland

It’seems that layoffs are never off the table at DXC, especially in UK and Ireland. The author of this article claims to be in possession of an internal memo from the leadership, that states that the company will be taking applications for voluntary... — read more 

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| 3150 views | | 16 replies (last December 16, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Ws4ZIWU

America’s Consulting WFR today

About 50 people got let go today from America’s Consulting. Mostly people that were hired 6 months ago. Including many college hires.

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| 1790 views | | 5 replies (last December 5, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WrjvyLf

So is Americas getting better now that KP is gone?

How are the new leaders doing? I am sticking around hoping that at least someone will turn this ship around. I don’t see the new leaders in action though, assuming that they stay at a very high level. Would love to hear what y’all think about where... — read more 

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| 2390 views | | 10 replies (last December 5, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WrPa5Li

Happy Christmas from Peter

"transforming our operating model and structure to better align and optimise to support our client base on the digital journey." Is there anything that DXC puts out there that’s make any sense? I see on LinkedIn DXC posts utter bunkham, oooo let’s... — read more 

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| 1580 views | | 3 replies (last December 1, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WoPePsq

Cramer says too much DXC cutting

Quote from cnbc.com shouter Jim Cramer, FWIW: "Bottom line? There are tons of tech stocks that have sold off dramatically for no particular reason. DXC Technology is not one of them," Cramer said. "The thesis here was all about cost cuts, but now it... — read more 

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| 4330 views | | 11 replies (last December 8, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WoyiT0m

Fraud Charges Relating to Sale of Autonomy to HP in 2011

Ooh some more scurrilous scandal at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46397367 "Mike Lynch, the former chief executive of software giant Autonomy, has been charged with fraud in the US. The charge, which carries a maximum term of 20 years, relates... — read more 

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| 1220 views | | 4 replies (last December 3, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Wolg8K4

Your fearless leader, ladies and gentlemen...

Spouting the same exact stuff in 2002 as he does today. Next time you take sh-- from one him or one of his cronies.... imagine them in a bar by themselves. Would they shrivel alone in a corner?? I bet this guy would.. maybe talk about digital... like... — read more 

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| 1430 views | | 2 replies (last November 30, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WoUHVtA

UK Cuts

Most of the threads on this forum relate to account execs and what little value they add to the account. Today rumour has it they announced 60% of the UK’s account execs are being made redundant. Am I imagining this or did Lawrie says in his investor... — read more 

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| 2680 views | | 10 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Wn7Iq49

DXC Consulting is doomed!

Word on the street is that Carlos Lopez Abadia is looking for a new job. He’s fed up with having to report to Ed Ho. Additionally, the marquee project that DXC won with the MTA is about to be marred with scandal as one of the managing partners on the... — read more 

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| 2800 views | | 9 replies (last December 16, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WnJItZZ

McKinsey - saviours of the universe or virulent leeches

No one has mentioned the legion of McKinsey consultants that surround our CEO blowing smoke up his a-- and driving an ideology of slash and burn to reduce costs on the assumption that the client will continue to pay for a product inferior to the one... — read more 

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| 2320 views | | 8 replies (last December 1, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WmIIaQv

DXC in a nutshell

Has this been posted yet? If it has, I apologize. Too good to pass up, though. A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance... — read more 

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| 2080 views | | 9 replies (last November 30, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WmDMcwY

Overhead x productive workforce

I see that a wrong strategy that they are cutting productive workforce and keeping strong overhead in levels L5 and L6. South Latan are full off unproductive CRE's and AE's with no account, don't make sense. They seems parasites that will not leave... — read more 

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| 1620 views | | 8 replies (last November 29, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Wl29DoI

CFO of DXC Americas leaves the company

Another senior exec at DXC Technology's Americas operation has left the organisation: chief finance officer Matthew Neisler split on Friday, according to an internal memo. In a note to the bean-counting department, enterprise veep and worldwide CFO... — read more 

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| 4390 views | | 16 replies (last November 28, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+Wk8WNHb

Why would anybody join DXC as it is now?

I see these young people who are joining the DXC workforce pretty much en masse to replace the older laid off workers, and I can't figure out why. The most basic search can uncover what kind of company DXC is and how it treats its employees. And yet... — read more 

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| 2910 views | | 8 replies (last December 7, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WkJ0yz0

India WFR Update

List of December WFR is ready and approved. .to be rolled out inthe next 2- 3 weeks in India centers. Approx 4000 graduate student s from Arts, animal husbandry, music, fashion studies, electrical engg have been recruited as a balancing number. A... — read more 

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| 2800 views | | 8 replies (last December 19, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WkQaPuy

It's Friday, it's five to five, it's CrackerJack!

...er no it's not, it's time for an invitation to leave the company as the next round of WFR hits everyone's inbox. Have a nice weekend, coz this smells like a biggie. With all the contractors leaving at the end of Nov/Dec who's going to be doing all... — read more 

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| 3480 views | | 16 replies (last November 28, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WhsyuI5

Time for DXC stock to break $50.00?

Doesn't look like the $2B share buy back has had much of an effect to reverse the sliding stock following its fall below $60 on Monday afternoon. Shareholders JPMorgan, Primecap Management Co., American Century Companies Inc., Eagle Asset Management... — read more 

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| 2500 views | | 9 replies (last December 8, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WgT7wYB

DxC is a good lesson learnt! [Thread deleted]

Not my thread or doing. But the 11hour old thread was deleted on here today belonging to /t/Wg2Vigd. I read back the cached version to try and discover what might have led to its deletion and can see it had an instructive point 3 that had used a verb... — read more 

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| 1780 views | | 5 replies (last November 28, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WgNhBzS

Doing the same thing, but expecting different results

What improvements has management ever made in the 1.5 years DXC has been in existence? We are all dreaming if we think things are ever going to change. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expecting a different result... — read more 

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| 1270 views | | 3 replies (last November 22, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WfrrA62

Reverse Technology

After being WFR’d from DXC , and after reading the disappointment of so many , I have been inspired by the thought of reverse technology . Any ex technical staff over the age of 55 my understand this possibility. If you are over a certain age you... — read more 

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| 2040 views | | 4 replies (last November 27, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+WfDavQp

DXC's goal setting exercise is just a farce

As long as you do the Manager's personal work, your ratings will be good. Even if it as small as buying him a c-gare--e everyday. I have seen hard working professionals sidelined since they were not a55 licking

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| 1730 views | | 10 replies (last November 28, 2018)
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