Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

India people did not care when 100000s job lost globally to offshore to India.

Family people losing income.

So no sympathy from me! UK employee.

I see job tech cuts in offshore supposedly cheap is what's goes round comes round.

@gm India and Philippine are losing at least 25% staff each year. Onshore ANZ Europe North America are already at 15%. Grade A and B crew are long gone so HR stopped tracking regretted attrition yonks ago. Few realize company is billing less 60% of people. Remainder is overhead. Customers are hopping to smaller local outfits and AI’s helping. Now that most local smaller consultancies are paying on par with the company remaining billable crew will be out the door soon enough.

This seems to have unraveled spectacularly fast.

OP ended up revealing far more than he meant to about DXC’s toxic mess.

What is this absurd excuse of a workplace?

Who would ever work for as*holes like OP that keep posting here?

@az money troubles then change employers if you can, what a little crying baby. Grow UP!

Finally a grown up!

If people don't like the way they are being treated then get your CV/Resume out and see if you are wanted by another company. If not you are paid a salary . get paid vacation , sick days , your health insurance is lower than paying it yourself. Be a professional and do your f-king job to the best of your ability

Trolling bot. Or botting troll?

@bj Hard to miss how motivated you are by that wood your management provides. Clearly, it keeps you poor… but very happy.

@b2

The intelligent talent like you in DXC is olympic caliber. I admit you win the gold medal in self-delusion.

You are that talented DXC employee with zero leadership duties, zero managerial scope and based on your own bragging zero upward salary trajectory. Your hobbies? Doomscrolling layoff forums of DXC for "entertainment", taking potshots at colleagues who dare speak truth and contradicting yourself with the dedication of a professional idi*t. And of course, you proudly declare yourself the happiest, most committed, most pragmatic person in DXC.

One thing couldn’t be clearer: you are fully present on payroll, fully absent from work.

DXC customers, take note. This is the kind of "most dedicated" DXC expert you have to endure daily. Of course, along with the majority of employees who are fed up with the company.

@b0 So you’re openly admitting you’re here to troll the trolls? Bold employer strategy. How much deeper are you planning to dig this sh*thole you’ve already thrown yourself into?

@az You are entitled to your views and I am entitled to mine. Yours is negative and troll like, mine is pragmatic and realistic.

It’s okay, there are trolls in every company. They are usually the dead wood that no one really wants, and they are bitter because they are stuck.

@ay So the struggles of your colleagues, their anxiety, their money troubles, their feeling trapped are entertainment for you? And earlier you were saying how you valued them. Funny how you’re sounding more like DXC management’s mouthpiece by each response.

@aw it’s entertainment at times, just to see how very uneducated and incorrect some of the views are.

I don’t think management or HR read any of this, as it doesn’t add any value.

So let me get this straight. You’re overflowing with realism and optimism about your job and colleagues, yet somehow you’ve ended up on a layoff site? Interesting combination.

In the end, you’re admitting the same thing everyone else here is saying you’re just packaging it differently. DXC isn’t giving you raises, isn’t giving you job security and clearly is giving you enough anxiety that you’re here scrolling through layoff rumors. But sure, tell us more about how confident, realistic and positive you are in DXC!

Let your bosses in DXC HR know it’s time to send someone with actual intelligence to handle damage control here because whatever you have isn’t cutting it.

@ap
Attrition rates are very low, so nothing will change unless people vote with their feet.

I am surprised that you care about who will do the work? You don’t need to worry about that. You need to worry about what is best for you, so if DXC is not best for you, then there is always an alternative, which may be better or may be worse.

When i talk to people and tell them i have not had a raise for years they don't believe me. They say its not possible for a company to do that.

You can move elsewhere but thats not solution, the company is making $600 million a year but choosing not to pay employees, the management are happy to take their money. If the money wasnt there they would be taking a lot less.

They are choosing to starve employees purposely. They are saying all of you "leave...." whose going to do the work?

I have no issue with my salary on its own — I don’t even rely on it. My grievance is that colleagues who do less, know less, contribute less, require constant correction, are never available, and have been here far shorter (and are clearly already looking to leave) are being paid significantly more. It doesn't make me want to put the effort in myself anymore. But also these people don't respect my talents, because I earn less! And this is why DXC is a mess. Anyway in compensation I take the equivalent of a day off a week. Nobody notices, looks like they all do the same.

@aj, I am very sorry to read this. I think looking to up skill is the best way forward. Also, speak to people internally, and see if you can move around, that way you would get your confidence back. Again, I am very sorry to read this.

@ag

I completely agree with you when it comes to the absolutely top management, they need to do better to make sure that the Company is doing better financially. As for their pay, again, I am realistic. People in those positions, in every company around the world get paid a lot and far more than the people who actually do the work. This is even true in the majority of charitable organisations.

The in country leaders and managers are unable to magic money pots to pay people more. I have witnessed country leaders, managers and HR pushing for people to get more but the budget is not available.

I don’t think there is one person in DXC who thinks that everyone is very well paid and that people are satisfied with their packages.

Personally, I know that I can get paid more elsewhere, but I choose to stay put, for now, as this works for me and I like my work, colleagues and manager. I am sure that I will not feel like this forever, which is why I make sure that I keep my skills up to date and my CV. That way, I am not stuck.

@af
Hi sounds easy, I been with DXC for a long time, I do not feel confident applying for a new job outside DXC. My skills is outdated due promises of DXC, we were told new technology is coming. since then years passed and nothing has happened. I probably can do a course and learning something new but without experience I feel it would be allot tougher for me get another job. I do not want to take a pay cut not in this climate, especially when I'm the main person bringing the income as I have a wife and 2 young kids to look after.

@OP
“ These decisions are not withheld out of reluctance, but because the company is simply not in a financial position to offer more.”
The company is ‘not in a financial position to offer more’ because its been so badly run to the point of criminal negligence over the last twelve, probably more, years. If you’ve only been with DXC for five years you wont know about the previous history with Mike Lawrie or the consistently broken promises that there will be pay reviews and pay rises that he and others have made. And it’s always the same excuse “the company is not is a position to pay more” and that’s also not taking into account the virtually constant process of ‘transformation’ this company has been undertaking for more or less the same time but certainly since the CSC/HPE merger in 2016 and the consequent slow decline that has happened as a result of executive decisions and not employee lack of ability.
After all, we’re constantly being told by the heads of whichever division it is that they meet ‘amazing’ people when they visit the offices so it can’t be the employees can it?
If you think you’re the only one who wants to do a good job, enjoys your work, and works with great colleagues, you’re not the only one, many of us do, but our cynicism has been incubated for much longer than the five years you’ve been here.
Me, I’ll continue to post when I feel its appropriate but DXC doesn’t show any signs that it’s willing to do the one thing that would make its employees lives better and that’s to honor it’s pay promises.

@aa I completely understand. However, this is where individuals need to take ownership and constructive actions.

DXC is not the only employer in the world, and if an individual is unhappy and feels that they would be offered a better financial package and fulfilment elsewhere, then why do they not take those opportunities.

Surely, taking action would help their mental health and put them in a better financial position.

Good for you if you are happy never to receive a pay rise. You are financially well off and have only been in for 5 years so on a good package.

Remember inflation has been rampant after covid, Others are struggling, to keep their families afloat with food, bills and other costs and have not had rises in decades.

This effects people mental status and goodwill. You have to see it from their point of view. They will highlight this situation.

Especially when the higher levels are taking large amounts of money but not delivering.

Hopefully you understand.

Very well said. Thank you for your post.