My manager of 5 years, along with 99% of sr.managers last Feb. were demoted to a lesser role - consultant/PM - and stripped of their leadership/manager level rank. Not sure if their pay changed but regardless, my manager was sadly demoted.
He is a GREAT manager and is now our "PM" but official title is consultant. Not even Sr Consultant. We all still consider him our manager anyways but, our new manager is a director and he's OK but like, might as well live in fuqing Antarctica because he never does anything with us; and all of our 1x1's are like 5-8 minutes long lol.
Anyways, my manager was demoted from mgr to consultant, and was previously hybrid. Well then they closed his office so was forced to be full remote. Since remote employees are not eligible to be promoted anymore he's quite literally in a dead end job.
It's not just him but like, we have an ultra smart and INCREDIBLY valuable guy on our team who is an i8 or i9 but is remote, was hired on as remote, and then they did their BS so this guy is also now stuck in a dead end job. With a family. Along with any remotes who were hired prior to this bs policy change 2 years ago when they gave ppl the chance to be remote or hybrid.
I mean, I get and understand that Dell wants all employees to be local to an office but like, when a MASSIVE portion of the company is remote... Are they really going to can the vital remotes? I think they would but I feel it'd be more expensive to do so
If Dell were to help financially with relocation then I'd assume a good 50 % of remotes would relocate but, why TF would someone relocate on their own dime when Dell has been on a layoff frenzy for the last 6-8 years?