Not alot of folks outside of RR knew about this, is was just for those luck folks at the MotherShip in RR. But today there was a town hall with a Q&A and someone asked about RTO. He basically said that when, even during COVID, was a mistake. Anyone else who saw the townhall, what were your thoughts?
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Maybe the only ones able to attend were able to based on their workload?
@2xct+1uUuTMRY Reading comprehension is key…. He “WANTS” to be.
The comparisons here are outlandish.
Dell is not a FAANG. Don't compare it to such. It's many tiers downwind of a google or apple.
- Dell is not lite-Elon. Give me a effing break. Elon runs 7 companies from vehicles to space exploration. Dell's barely keeping a mouse and keyboard company afloat. The two should not be in the same sentence together.
It does read like the execs not holding managers accountable if talent productivity is down.
Was this town hall recorded? Wonder if it will get posted internally.
We need to cut the BS and get to the point: We’ve all been let down by the few who took advantage of the situation. The data shows giving traditionally office-based sales employees a WFH option has hurt our metrics. A few bad apples is all it takes.
That is what the execs should be saying. Tell it dirty and factual.
We can see the numbers of meetings, quotes, and calls done daily.
I bet you all know a few internal sales who treated WFH like a vacation and went AWOL. They let us down, now everyone suffers.
And we all know one or two field sales people working remote and never meeting customers face-to-face aren’t building relationships beyond Zoom calls. They let us down, now everyone suffers.
Forget opinions; the metrics tell the story. Number of quotes on certain days, number of meetings, talk time and logins. That’s the conversation we need to have.
The memo says they want field sales people onsite with customers, partners, or in the office, in that order.
“But why can’t managers just handle the lazy people?” Who knows. This takes it out of their hands and comes from the top.
The challenge now is the behavior and time-wasting this new rule has created. Most of us work hard, we’re onsite with customers, and the ISR's and team members are always busy. I never see them disappear.
This new rule piles on the pressure and time wasting activities. It ki-ls the morale of the contributors. They won’t work outside 9-5 now and they’re all stressed beyond belief. We are getting calendars filled with "busy work". where are you, where are you now, are you coming to the office check-ins rather than asking if we win deals.
People are now more worried about getting in trouble for not being in the office while trying to tackle big customer projects, instead of focusing on their projects and work. When you have to make up a story or take a sick day to do work for a customer its counterproductive.
Some will make it more important to be in the office than to be working. And high performers will suffer for it. All because of a few slackers.
Just give us the numbers, then we can fix it.
Someone (MD) wants to be the next Elon so badly… his rhetoric is sounding very similar and his obvious lack of respect for those that keep the company running along with his tone death LinkedIn posts are so egocentric it’s repulsing.
MD said they made a mistake. Either this is poppycock or such an egregious mistake that the community wants to know what other mistakes have been made. The woman who asked him the question has guts. Either she knows shes on a list or if she wasn't she's on one now.
RTO has become the fake scapegoat in an attempt to hide abysmal incompetence and poor performance from leadership.
Now they are still trying to blame COVID. Anything but honest accountability from leadership. This is a modern trend. Leaders are never accountable and it's always someone or something else to blame.
It really is pathetic. As a company we've been pushing flexible/remote work since about 2011. A significant number of employees were remote before the pandemic. It was working. If they were serious about RTO, they'd be re-opening offices around the country that they closed and left countless employees stranded without an office to return to. He's full of sh!te with this nonsense.
Yup. No vision or leadership. Just following what the latest cool kids in tech are doing.
The lady should have followed up with "so when are you restoring the land/building/amenities that was sold off during covid?"
Get rid of Scannell too.
Well, he also told the rest of the organizations who are doing RTO that they'd doing it wrong.
https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/michael-dell-chides-return-to-office-ceos-you-re-doing-it-wrong
So the guy just goes where the tide goes. He has no stance and tomorrow if everyone said, "Go all remote", he'd go remote again.
The only thing wrong will Dell is Michael and Jeff Clarke. Get rid of them and you'll fix the company.
I wish they would send out this email already and just tell us we’re goners!!
Per the other site, a woman got up and told MD that 44% of her team is remote. Always has been. So she asked why the discrimination between on-site and remote workers now in terms of promotion opportunities? Especially in the light of continuous YOY record breaking quarters. According to others who were at the meeting, MD replied that it was a mistake to hire all of the remote workers during the pandemic; and that the company is going in the right direction now (RTO).
The lady basically asked why we hired a bunch of remote workers then made the ineligible for promotion. MD basically said it was a mistake and F them Remotes. Paraphrasing it that is the general gist.
"He basically said that when, even during COVID, was a mistake."
Try again but in english this time.
What did the person specifically ask and what was his specific response? What you said above makes no sense
Anything about remote workers?