Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Rahul is the biggest side hu----r, his sports and other work is his main employment, his side hustle is DXC.

Within his DXC side hustle or call it "DXC holiday time" he relaxes by just travelling the world fully expensed. I mean he visits Employees and Clients ha ha. He hasn't discovered MS Teams yet but he will one day.

@15v Welcome to DXC where the staff is on paid leave and business logic is on unpaid leave. Indefinitely.

@15j

"Engineer falsifies Team presence to work second job" - nothing to see here folks.

"Person occasionally glances at a message board" - you're going to get sacked!

Brilliant logic.

@14w They don’t know who he is but they certainly know who you are and they know you spend an inordinate amount of time on this site. Knowing the DXC HR team I can guess how this ends. You’d better clear out your inbox before that pink slip arrives.

If there were genuinely meaningful work to do, most people would get on with it. It may not always happen strictly between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday—and that shouldn’t matter if outcomes are being delivered.

The reason things like mouse jigglers get used is typically not laziness, but a culture where people feel pressured to appear “available” all day, even when there isn’t enough real work to justify it. People can’t be expected to endlessly invent tasks that add no value.

It is a management issue! The pipeline of useful work is broken, or resources are not being deployed effectively. Busy work helps nobody. If the business genuinely doesn’t need people, then be honest about it and run the appropriate VR/CR process. If people are needed, then use their skills properly.

Employees are not there to stare at a screen pretending to be busy. In reality, when work does arise, many people are more productive if they’ve had open flexibility to deal with life admin and can then focus properly when it counts.

Stop measuring online time! Start measuring delivery! If I can complete something in a day that you told the client would take 3 weeks - this is not my problem!!

@123 thank you. Mouse jiggler has now been reported to HR and Management.

Hopefully an easy enough fix.

@123 This company operates like an exclusive early retirement club where the collective goal is simply to pass the time. It’s by far the worst run company I’ve experienced. I joined earlier this year and within my first week it was clear something was off. The management is disconnected from ground reality. They are not troubling themselves with the inconvenience of actually running anything. There’s a strong culture among the management types I met of meeting the bare minimum expectations. I’m now exploring roles elsewhere where my time and skills will be better utilized.

Get your emails on your phone and google "mouse jiggler".
You're still contactable.
In my fifties. I've refined the "Avoid/pass work" as legitimatley as I can and everyone else is doing the same - nudge, nudge wink, wink.
In the last 6 years, done a lot of allotment growing .... Whats not to like :)

@v7 Grab a red light mouse, download a quick app on your phone and open it, plug the phone into the charger and place the mouse on the screen. In two minutes, you’ve reached peak productivity. Nobody’s spotting what’s going on and frankly nobody cares.

We sell man hours. Not solutions. The longer it takes the higher the bill. The more profit. The company is just a resource hire agency. It takes 80%+. If it stopped paying static salaries and linked them to usage rates. Then it might find it was quite a good agency. It would encourage staff to actually want to be utilised. Let the clients manage what we do. They shadow us enough as it is sometimes.

Company of mouse jigglers and OP points out the right thing and suddenly all he-l breaks loose.

Get a life guys.

Whose the biggest DXC side hu----r of all hmmm… 🤔

If anything, one of the most positive aspects of working here is the excellent work-life balance because work rarely shows up.

@ej I think the point is the company just doesn't have the work because it's lost the trust of the clients - caused by losing good staff and the rest make no secret that it's now 10 years since their last meaningful pay rise. Yet it doesn't know what it needs doing going forward. It's scared to make cuts, and finding it needs to rehire all those people on current market rates at up to 40% more.

Beware the company will just find you busy work if you let it. So this is about self protection.

Misrepresenting or lying about anything isn't acceptable. However pragmatic flexibility helps everyone. It's sunny, the lawn needs cutting, I've got nothing to do whilst waiting on a reply from someone else who I'm quite sure will taken a couple of hours! We could waste that time just waiting, or I could feel I actually get something out of this company (It's certainly not a fair salary!) and I'll carry on later when I'm unblocked from progressing.

But micromanage away if the intention is to drive everything to a complete halt.

The tongue of those ar-e lickers must be well worn by now. Wonder if it was worth it because other things must taste like cr-p now!

I think some of you are missing the point. Surely you'd be better to show as away for eight hours and then when questioned be able to say "where is the work, give me something to do?".

As others have said, the fact that you are actively falsifying your online presence is the gross misconduct.

@ec Gross misconduct is about failing to be available for work when required. I don’t believe people are realistically running a second full on-site or remote job in parallel — it’s just not practical.

The real measure should be whether the work is delivered to the expected standard and within the required timeframe. How and when that work is carried out shouldn’t be micromanaged.

If the company reduces performance tracking to “keyboard activity” or being logged in for a fixed 8 hours, productivity will likely drop further, not improve.

I use a script to prevent sessions timing out when switching between client machines. Otherwise, I’m constantly logging back in, missing notifications, or resorting to pointless activity just to keep the screen awake — none of which adds value and all of which breaks concentration.

The company absolutely has the right to set expectations on what needs to be delivered and by when. But dictating how, when, and where every minute is spent is neither effective nor necessary.

The people who do have the capacity to do extra, is totally down to mismanagement. There's a complete lack of a pipeline of work, tasks are blocked, unnecessary delays at every turn. Why wouldn't someone in that position fill that if the company doesn't have the need for it.

@bz yeah we can all write scripts but can we read a post online and understand the point? Evidently not based on your response.

The OP wasn't criticizing the use of scripts, the point of the post is those that use it to falsify their online presence in Teams in order to do another job for 8 hours.

The funnier part is those getting angry because their gross misconduct is finally being called out.

Always remember: it’s roughly a 50–50 split in this place.

Half of you deliver real work to real customers.

The other half do “important” work about what the first half does, mostly talking to each other or appearing busy.

In the second group are people in corporate functions (HR, IT, talent acquisition, finance, BizOps, marketing, legal & contracts), people managers, delivery managers or client facing staff (sales, presales, practice, solutioning, CTO, industry) who frequently travel two full workdays for a 30‑minute low density meeting with a prospective client, then wait weeks for an RFI/RFP that they promptly hand off to someone in the first group to address and present. And yes, ironically enough, these people make up 50% of the headcount but earn over 70% of the payroll.

I welcome OP’s intervention. It would primarily affect people in the second group (which he belongs to) finally pushing them to solve their own problems and benefiting the company.

If you’re in the first group, yes the overheads (like HR or the OP) resent you because your skills are highly marketable and you’re effectively employable by two companies. They’ll try to avoid paying you more but they can’t easily penalize you for slacking because you generate revenue which pays their salary. So, relax and take it easy because you’re basically a walking invoice.

@bv Seriously if you can't write yourself a script to automate any tasks you have to make your life easier and therefore deliver a better service and call yourself an IT professional then you shouldn't be in IT. It's absolutely stupid being locked out every 5 minutes and it taking 2 mins to get back in. Script everything it's 2026!!! Or AI will just do it for you. The company needs people who take the effort. Not ar-e lickers determined to block everything and thus all progress.

@bv

It's not on you, nor anyone posting in this thread, to enforce this. Who cares about poor ol' DXC getting manipulated?

Worry solely about yourselves. There's plenty of that to keep you busy for months on end.

@bt there have been numerous posts on this forum about engineers running scripts to look busy. It's hardly a secret.

Reap what you sow.

@OP
You total snake in the grass. You’re making a judgement on what you believe people are doing without any evidence? Maybe ask your coworkers if they have other needs that require them to work other jobs as DXC doesn’t want to pay people the going rate.
You complete lump of dog tu-d.

It's the culture they have created, so senior leaders have no one to blame but themselves.

Grass! 🤣🤷‍♂️

@as

Thank the lord you are here to fight for corporate interests.

Which brand of boot polish is the best tasting?

Rawuls has fallen over his chair laughing at the op.

Mr Rawul side hustles galore didn't like you highlighting again thats he works for multiple companies making millions.

Your definitely going to be fired.

@OP
Are you suggesting that you won’t get the support from Raul when you need it as he has multiple jobs that are probably side hustles?

@OP
If you’re worried about the lack of support you potentially won’t receive when you need it how busy are you as most of us are not as busy as you obviously are?

@a6
Raul, wouldn’t have been easier and more complete to post this directive to the wider DXC employee community as not all employees are on this board and won’t see it?

Someone working a second job to make ends meet is not "gross misconduct". Let alone someone who turned a passion or a hobby into profit. This isn't feudalism.

No side hustles too hopefully

There is no work ethic without ethical wages

@ax "imaginary" network strike you mean. Waiting for an incident/task to come in doesn't mean you're on strike.

Anyone in this day an age who thinks it's sensible to rely solely on a single source of income for their future is a fool. This and any company will let you go the moment you are not needed. You need a backup - you need reliance. I do however agree, you can't be doing a 2nd full time job, and whenever DXC needs you, then you're not available to do it.

Op you are obviously a big brown nose ar$e sniffer.

You will soon get made redundant, then you will realize why everyone supported the Network team in their actions.

This is beautiful to watch. All those bragging about side hustles will soon be slapped back to reality.

@a6 What bullsh-t. Most of us do not work in an environment where we need to clock on at 9am, sit there bashing away at keys for 7.5hrs and then shutdown. Sometimes it's busy - we do what we need to and try and get the job done. Sometimes it's quiet and we can go and focus on something else so that you are ready to focus on DXC work again when needs be. Wiggling the mouse or otherwise is totally irrelevant. Did you perform the task asked of you in a timely way, to the appropriate quality is the only measure that any manager should apply. If your job has that much of a backlog. Then it's still irrelevant what hours of the day you work, as long as everyone feels it's enough.

If the company wants to tightly control it all - then even less will get done than it already does.

Human Resources has been made aware of the use of scripts, automated tools, or other methods designed to circumvent Microsoft Teams presence indicators, including maintaining an “Available” status while not actively working.

The deliberate manipulation of attendance or availability systems is considered a serious breach of trust and a violation of company policy. This behaviour misrepresents working time and productivity, undermines accountability, and damages the integrity of our workplace standards.

The use of any software, script, or workaround intended to falsely display an “Available” status when an employee is not actively working will be treated as gross misconduct.

Employees found to be engaging in this activity, or otherwise deliberately avoiding work during scheduled working hours, will be subject to formal disciplinary action. Depending on the circumstances, this may result in summary dismissal (dismissal without notice).

The company will investigate any suspected misuse thoroughly and reserves the right to monitor and review system activity where appropriate. All employees are expected to conduct themselves honestly and professionally and to adhere to agreed working arrangements.

If you are experiencing legitimate difficulties with Teams presence status or system functionality, you should raise this with your line manager or IT Support rather than attempting to bypass monitoring systems.

This matter will be treated with the utmost seriousness.

If there was such thing as "work ethic" it would start with decent salaries and respect towards the employees. It is hardly "ethical" if multimillion dollar company is not paying enough and fails to deliver on its own promises. We are doing bare minimum, just like them. They pay, we work, that is all, nothing more than stipulated labour contract. It was their choice.