“Starting September 1, DXC is introducing a global expectation that associate managers and above who live within 40km of a DXC office will be on site at DXC office or a customer location at least two days per week”
Question. So i don’t need to be on a customer site for two days a week if i’m not located within 40km of a DXC site?
Redundancies next on staff that cannot RTO.
If the company wants change on this or any topic it has to pay for it. Anyone who bags enough office day points gets a £5k bonus is your only answer. But I predict those staff won't justify that extra money in extra productivity!! We used to get paid just to be there. Since WFH, hopefully most get paid for what they do.
This won't last when the reason Mr client your server is down all day is that someone is in an office but can't find a desk, or your server failed at 4:45, and because someone is in the office, they have to go home now so it'll have to wait until 9am tomorrow.
If the company removes all flexibility this job used to offer, don't expect any in return when you want it. There wasn't that much of it in the first place!!
The guys at the top have to justify thier jobs so have to invent new things to keep busy. Rather than focus on growth they only know to meddle internally, they are not good enough to deal with customers and winning business.
Where are they going to get the money for these shiny new offices and the ESG carbon emissions offset. That will blow a hole in their make it up as you go along strategy.
What is the pint . except to lay off more people without severance. There is no point going into a DXC office if all your colleagues are somewhere else or you support clients around the world like I do!
We are telling our customers that our employees engagement software doesn’t work and never did ?
RTO. Another knee-je-k reaction from DXC. It really hasn’t been well thought out has it?
3+ years advertising "virtual first", all the new hires in that time getting employment contracts saying default place of work is home, and then with a single ChatGPT generated email its back to the offices (starting at 2 days a week but no doubt planned to increase) and this to office space that for 5+ years have been shrinking capacity - what can possibly go wrong?
Going into an office somewhere. Anywhere. Doesn't matter what days. Just because - is not the answer that will fix DXCs woes.
They need to bring teams together. Not to work. But just to realise we're all human. 5 years on from COVID I've never met some colleagues. My boss has never bought me a drink to say thanks for all that. We need to start by just bringing teams together in the same place at the same time just once in a while. Does our new hire colleague deserve £15k more. Maybe. Probably not. But the resentment for someone we've never seen is ki-ling all team cohhesian. Getting us properly together for a morning now and then might just start to fix all that.
But they won't. They can't organise it! Let alone justify the cost and time out required to do it. Even just once in 5 years. And if the can. Well how about spending some of that cash getting everyone who does the same job on the path towards the same salary!!
Collaboration in person meaning you cannot get any work done 'cause people keep talking over one another in one big space so employee efficiency drops and you come home drained while having done absolutely squat. How is this a good thing?
Where are all these people supposedly going to work? Sitting on the floor in corridors?
@ea Aldershot was sold off ages ago. There's a small DXC site in Farnborough though
I kind of get it. But it's only a reality if you do live near Newcastle or Aldershot. But the company can't keep flitting around on what it wants and doesn't want without staff seeing direct benefits. Which is basically a happy stable job that they feel properly rewarded for both financially and in the value the work brings to our clients. After all this time I can't that ever occuring at DXC. Stop the endless status spreadsheets for god sake.
DXC seems to expect it's clients to provide office space and presumably equipment to DXC staff to facilitate this. On the basis most companies did a RTO around 3 years ago - if they wanted you there - you'd probably already be there. So what's changed other than DXC doesn't know how to get it's staff to work anymore. Despite endless calls here for pay parity along with systems and processes that facilitate getting work between clients and DXC teams. That's not email and spreadsheets in 2025!!
So the two previous threads on this topic weren't enough?
Although interesting your email mentions 40km the UK one from Del-boy didn't mention a distance at all.
Also how the **** can you work at DXC and not know that the last job code changed made almost everyone apart from new starters either managers or associate managers. The jokes at work and here were endless. Everyone in my group became a manager overnight.
Right, I the new job architecture made almost everyone a manager, especially in low cost countries. Supposedly made them feel more important, but still at lower job level and wages. So the new policy is DXC is no longer a virtual first company. What a mess.
"associate manager" is the old senior professional grade. You aren't managing anyone or anything.
Even "manager" is a misnomer as a grade.
Everyone in my team (the actual workers) are those two grades.
@aq are you a manager? If not it doesn’t apply to you
Exactly on a number of points here! How does a customer site work for leveraged engineers. If management think we can just pick one day to work on one account, then they have no idea how we work!
And there aren’t enough hot desks at most customer sites.
Communication of this sort should have been presented. Instead, a very poorly written email has been sent out from a person who has no understanding of how we actually work! And it has pi$$ed a lot of people off in an environment where moral is at an all time low!
Great work.
How would they know if you were at a customer site ?
He forgot to add "if by some miracle you can book a desk in the office"
Which you can't....because they've shrunk down to half a dozen broom cupboards.
Thank God I was not promoted in the last 10 years.
Two things,
The id--t used chat gpt to write the email, the elongated - is a dead giveaway
The id--t who’s now a r3tarded hasn’t realised that no client will allow DXC staff to use their offices to work for other clients. There are no DXC sites near me. Why would my local MOD site allow me to work for a non MOD account?
What is this mo-o getting paid again?
Me: What if I refuse to RTO?
DXC: You’ll be made redundant.
Me: Thanks. God bless.