Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

If they took a pay cut at the top and become mire productive instead of running sports businesses on the side then productivity would rise.

The man who is doing other work at the top has cheek to blame and monitor others, wake up rahul.

@OP can you please share more details of the email?

When people feel monitored and mistrusted, productivity doesn’t go up. It goes down. People stop taking initiative, start playing it safe, and morale tanks.

If he thinks tracking staff on their work laptops will motivate anyone he sadly doesn’t understand people. How about a novel approach like having a regular career progression path, honoring promotions with a salary rise, paying regular salary rises if you reach your annual review target, more transparency in how performance is measured and a definite reward for it, listening to what the workers on the coalface think about the direction of the company etc?
All basic motivational things that successful companies adopt.

He hopes it will find people who are posting here. You cannot quantify people's value by the number of chars or mouse clicks they perform a day. Or who's constantly logged in from 9am till 5pm. But that's what they will monitor because that's all they can monitor. On that basis it will show that some weeks I do absolutely nothing. When I saw we need to make efficiencies I was so disappointed when it didn't just say click here to accept your pre-approved redundancy today with $10k enhancement. Which reduces by $500 a day the longer you take to think about it.

@a6 I bet they’ll give you the barest minimum they can legally get away if this starts happening.

@OP Bring on the redundancies. Hallelujah, amen.

@a3 that's 99% of the workforce! There'd be nobody left!

Tracking staff smacks of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, it really doesn’t change the fundamentls that revenue and profitabilty has been decling for the last thirty plus quarters and they have no idea why.
If there were genuine prospects of growth don’t you think this woud have mentioned and the market react accordingly?
Coupled with the vast senior management changes over the last two years its clear that the CEO recognises that the policy they’ve followed hasn’t worked and that staff tracking is a sticking plaster response in lieu of something more substantial.

The number of people I see sharing their desktop with mouse mover apps in the background is an embarrassment. Start by sacking that lot.

The message is actually about tracking people's productivity and yes, they will start letting more people go if they're not meeting the requirements they've set which are known only to them. It's an easy way to let people go.

He’s talking about monitoring staff with their productivity tools.

Basically snooping on staff