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A quiet shift in the shadows: the future of Dell US tech support jobs

Please be aware if your team is less than 15 people and has not changed, then chances are it will go to India or another country for less money. For example OLEM is almost out of the USA, so is the TagTeam, Triage has also been spread out through so many other countries (there are only a few people left in the USA). As they keep doing it, your job eventually will be threatened. Dell has been moving away from its old model (call centers) by introducing a new model based on automation for dispatch and self-dispatch in tech support. Nobody saw it coming while it was in the works 4 years ago. This even led a top VP to abruptly quit the role with frustration during peak COVID because this VP was working on saving our jobs in the USA but faced roadblocks from the top VPs. They have also been looking how to reduce the ISG Engineering Team in RR and OKC as they were seen as not seen as much productive by some directors in terms of metrics (obviously they do not understand how this works). This also led to a loss of highly skilled people a few years ago as their job role started changing through control of automation (chats, case creation ... etc) and other internal conflicts due to discrepancies among different teams.

I also firmly believe that Dell is working towards a giant queue and if you are still in the company then the role of your job will be modified, it's even possible there won't be anymore a specialization and employees will have to take all the inbound calls in tech support regardless of your expertise. It would be nice to think that we can stop this transition by getting tougher control restrictions with fines to these companies through governmental intervention (not going to happen to be truthful).

We also sought clarity from a few directors regarding the security of our jobs and they said they don't know what the future holds for the employees. Dell has enough money to retain its workforce (contracts got more expensive, they sell more services, metrics are good at employee level), but it seems like they want higher margins on top of already substantial earnings.

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“ My team is responsible for supporting no less than 11 different products and most of us have been "trained" on 1-2 of them.”

IDPA? Lol, it’s so annoying to answer the calls when you’re already on two zooms with 18 cases in your bin and WFM pushing an S1 on top of everything.

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Post ID: @dd+1jsaebv6c

LOL.. Welcome To future with AI solutions. A job that needed 15 people might get done by 5 US citizens who oversee the AI APP's results or complement it. It doesnt mean jobs are gone. You have to re-align with newer tech. There will be new jobs in newer tech areas as the AI technology advances.

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Post ID: @bj+1jsaebv6c

@aw+1jsaebv6c - they aren't getting around anything and are complying with the laws.

1-2 FTE from the offshored teams are being retained in CONUS to support FED while also wearing other hats.

I don't see fed support going anywhere. It may get consolidated into a smaller group, but it'll still be CONUS with US citizens. Fed in general is very protective of that to ensure compliance.

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Post ID: @ba+1jsaebv6c

"employees will have to take all the inbound calls in tech support regardless of your expertise."

For my role in ISG we've been going this direction for years already. My team is responsible for supporting no less than 11 different products and most of us have been "trained" on 1-2 of them. Many times we find out a new product has been added to our list when we get a customer call and try to transfer them to the appropriate team only to find out that it's us. Not coincidentally our survey scores and market share for these products has been on a steady decline.

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Post ID: @b2+1jsaebv6c

Curious how they get around the federal and state government requirements that all support be done by US citizens who pass background checks.

If you outsource that you're violating federal law, and in some cases, violating espionage act. Fed is super specific on this kind of thing. Remember, some of Dell Technologies products are considered ITAR regulated. You can't just "outsource" support for them outside of the USA.

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