Check your emails.
Whatever happened to the world leading education program announced a few weeks ago?
The cynical part of me thinks don’t you dare volunteer to share anything. They’ll use it to get rid of you once you’ve taught a grad or apprentice to do the job.
In many cases DXC have to sell these direct billable resources to the clients for projects.
We share CV’s and skills docs before a project starts and you rightly pointed out clients do cherry pick who they want.
If these experienced staff leave they can normally leave the DXC exit and hello client entrance as long as they did good by their client.
Why would a client pay 700-1100 a day if they can get that same resource in their company for around 200 a day max. Exactly!
Anyone who works for these clients who DXC are fleecing need to bookmark the client careers page.
@7fbb+1kwdENSV
Fun fact for you
"The young and the Hungry" within DXC have the highest rate of attrition at the moment. Looks like they are lapping up the "chance to do better" elsewhere !!
And you clearly have not been in the thick of things, else you would have known that DIRECT billable resources are so because they are highly valued by the clients... everyone else is a part of fixed price billing which is where the mass ends up. It is the former that DXC have been firing... and no, the clients do not accept a replacement for those kind, they pay for named reosurces ... and they end up hiring them back themselves in most cases.
"Clients seldom, if ever , sever relationship owing to dislike of resources. It is usually the other way round... the removal of resources that they like. Which DXC has been doing with inpunity for several years now."
disagree.
dxc may replace but not remove billing employees entirely.
onshore resource are booted mainly they've got slow and irelevant with years of legacy only skills. being too old to retrain and too expensive.
it is a time to move over granny. Let young and hungry have their chance to do better.
6swc+1kwdENSV
Clients seldom, if ever , sever relationship owing to dislike of resources. It is usually the other way round... the removal of resources that they like. Which DXC has been doing with inpunity for several years now.
People with 10/15/20 years of intrinsic client IT knowledge working in long standing (but now defunct/sick) accounts are too precious to be lost to the wild... they are routinely lapped up by the clients when DXC makes then redundant.
"A lot of the layed off staff at onshore is being hired by the clients"
You're hoping arn't you?
When clients walk, its because they don't like the resource they already have.
Those of you bashing offshore should know that they are burning the candle at both ends. Apart from laying off "expensive" onshore resources in Europe and America, they are also laying off senior offshore resources who have the actual knowledge and expertise, and backfilling them with fresh college graduates.
External hire has completely stopped. All backfills must be done internally, and all you get for the purpose is college grads, because the handful of experienced resource that are left are fully engaged, as expected.
Hence the performance issues.
A lot of the layed off staff at onshore is being hired by the clients, as they are wary of losing years worth of experience and knowledge to DXC's crazy whims and fancies.
Train Indians with IT degrees.... never seen actual servers..hands on.
They say yep all good, make redundant UK staff.
Then offshore first minor issue..did not get that knowledge transfer.. not our problem..go for a taka dail.
In the meanwhile. UK customer goes mad..whatever UK people left on other accounts..fix it.
Then offshore say how great they are. Useless sc-m bags.
@san+1kwdENSV That's some weird Trudeau speak - "If you off your enemies, they win.".
make DXC great
give knowledge to offshore team
reward will be given at next appraisal
Sorry @san+1kwdENSV - your perception of wisdom differs from mine.
This DXC strategy is nothing new.
I retired some years ago, but prior to that was regularly asked to pass on knowledge and help train colleagues. I was happy to do this, when said colleages were part of my (global) team; once upon a time this used to be called succession planning.
However, when it came to being ordered to pass on detailed knowledge of a system solution we had built, to employees of a competitor (since DXC has lost a run and maintain contract to them), I drew the line.
This proved to me senior management have no concept of intellectual property, knowledge value, nor the innovation abilities of existing company employees. Add to this the ludicrous lack of salary increases year on year, and you have a clear explanation of where this company is heading.
The original OP is right to be cynical.
please share your knowledge. The more you give, the more wise you become.
Sh|t, I had a peer some years ago who was required to train the offshore id--ts. Then he was fired. 8 months later, Cheap Skate Corp asked him to come back for two weeks to fix the offshore-induced mess. He said, not no, but HE-L NO. So Cut Staff Corp hired him full time again. He then got his MSCI at Cheat Scam Connive's expense, then told the sh|tty company to FVCK OFF, and he quit for better opportunity.