I read somewhere that layoffs fall into different categories depending on the reason. Like head count cuts target lower performers, budget cuts go after expensive but replaceable people, and big tech rounds are more about politics. Division closures take out almost everyone. Does that match what others have seen? Just trying to understand the pattern.
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Depends what the company is after... There are really only two MAIN reasons for layoffs and they are to either cut costs or reduce headcount. No matter how you look at it, it's ALWAYS to save money, though.
A) Budget Cuts: = getting rid of an expensive app/program/service that is vital, or slashing a bunch of high salaried employees... - They will 100% slash employees 10/10 times.
Need to reduce headcount? = low performers, redundent positions, those who are unliked or hard to work with.
I don't care what anybody else says but, they 100% target specific "demographics." An i7 making 180k? uhh what? an i10 making 230k? uhhh no. That 55 yr old i7 making 280k? yeah definetly no!
High salaried typically go first as that's the fastest way to save money, then those above a certain age because they can hire younger for cheaper, then those above 10 years of loyalty because they can higher mo--ns for half their salary, then low performers who are doing little to nothing.
Pretty much, only that the last year or two have all been budget cuts, and especially during the last year not with replaceable people, but rather trying to dump the (additional) workload on people that are already overworked, or simply not doing certain things because there are no resources left to manage them.
@ax I see both. Younger generations don’t necessarily have the work ethic and definitely don’t have the experience of many of their peers. Some are a liability to the company as they ‘practice’ in a high stakes game.
But, there are also those who (regardless of age) are ‘done’. Tired. On their back 9 with Dell, and possibly with their entire career.
@OP Dell is trying to do more with less. It’s unrealistic and hurting morale. Most people are doing the work of what 1.5-3 people did last year.
It’s a trend in big tech right now, stemming from a mix of down market and greed.
@ba If you mean we're resistant to following AI recommendations like a bunch of lemmings, then you are 100% correct.
@OP Really it's a little bit of all of the above. I've known my current biss since we went to college together 23 years ago. He admitted to me once that just about everyone on the team is within 5% of each other when it comes to performance, so after the 1 or 2 lower performers, he just started letting go people he didn't like until he hit the magic number he was handed.
Discrimination against the majority of the working population, that’s a new one. Maybe you are just bad at your job
Team members over 40 tend to be more set in their ways, more standoffish, less likely to accept change.
If you’re over 40 and this describes you, then you deserve to be cut. Sorry.
Older folks are more expensive then younger ones. Older folks are also set in their ways and not adopting fast enough compared to younger ones.
yep, let go at 60.
A lot of what Dell has been doing lately is just plain age discrimination. They'll sprinkle in a couple of younger guys to get away with it but it's flat out age discrimination. Anybody over 40 is a first target.