Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

RTO FAQ's were updated. Now it states the expectation is you will "work a regular day" in the office. That's vague. Also with ODW, current tracking will go away. Now the individual, nor the manager, will have visibility into their onsite tracking. That seems... odd? Of all people, why wouldn't they have the ability to see their onsite time? Who does? Will anyone?

@dy That was you getting a very extended weekend and now the party is over

@dc Misery loves company. I’m praying for you.

I don’t know why they didn’t go back to the pre-covid system of allowing people to work a couple of days a week at home. I used to work Monday and Friday at home. Most meetings with my team (the few members on-site) were on Tu-Th. Monday was a great day to set an agenda and Friday finishing up all those details for the week. That was productivity.

Give it a rest. We get it. You don't like RTO.

Don't worry, as oil prices continue to soar, we may all end up working from home.

complain all you want. Nobody cares and nothing will get done about it. Su-k it up or leave...simple as that. End of story...move on. We all have RTO fatigue syndrome at this point and are tired of hearing about it. If you leave, someone else that is grateful will take your job. Do the needful.

Anyone remember Kyle Leciejewski kicking off an enablement session that very first morning of mandatory RTO while being remote? Talk about tone deaf. And they promoted that guy?

@c1 I really for for you. 2.5hrs a day x 5 x 4 x 12 - 2 wks of that = 575hrs a year or in other words……3 1/2 weeks of driving non stop.

Hahahaha you spend 3.5 weeks a year just driving to work!!!

I think it’s time you hit the bricks

Pretty much echo others… my manager doesn’t care. But the higher ups in our org do. And they likely only care because JC makes them care. I spend 2.5 hrs a day, five days a week, commuting to an office that doesn’t contain a single person I know. That was effectively a pay cut as I was remote well before Covid. Most of my team is remote… the few of us who have to go to an office get friendly reminders that the expectation is 5 days a week, all the while we have a couple of teammates who are literally digital nomad-ing it and that is somehow perfectly okay? I have nothing wrong with them doing that, it’s the double standard that is messed up. I guess ‘f-me’ for an office just coincidentally being ‘about an hour’ from me, and not living in Colorado or Arizona or Florida.

@OP You're a pretty naive employee aren't you? The RTO policy was NEVER intended to help increase productivity. It was always intended--since day one--to get more people frustrated so they would ultimately quit on their own. There are tons of people who still work remote and Dell hasn't touched them. It's all a bluff.

I could make a case based on hard data to show that productivity has actually decreased. Why? Because people are spending 2 to 3 hours on the road, badging in, getting coffee, then shooting the bull around the water cooler for an hour, then going back home. Yeah, that's real productive isn't it? But that's Dell.

yeah and the sad part is, is that the only "people" who care about this nonsense is JC and company... Haven't met a manager, director or VP who agrees with RTO yet. We were sent a blurb about RTO this week - basically saying that 5 days a week does not = 1-4 days/week... But 5. Minus PTO and whatever else...

Was talking to my manager today about it all and he saw that as well and said that it wasn't coming from him but from HIS boss - a CSO, basically.

Not a single manager gives two F's about RTO, and heck even most directors and VP's dont... It's THEIR boss who gets pressure from the big dawgs to enforce it.

Dell is a global company and a lot of teams are spread throughout the... globe. Most or many of us go into an office full of people we literally do not know, or work with AT ALL.
They "claim" that "in person collaboration leads to quicker response times and etc...." and sure, that might be true for small companies, I'd LOVE to know how they figured this out lol.

I go into office 5 days a week, spending 2 hours in my car/day, + tolls + gas, only to sit next to a coworker and join virtual meetings and chat on TEAMS. We - and most of the group we work around - is gone by 11:30am.

If I didn't have this ONE coworker on my team who went to my office, I'd be badge swiping every day. Luckily he's super cool and we are the OG of our team but it's just pointless in every imaginable way because again, we "collaborate" via TEAMS and virtual meetings lmfao.

It was a ploy to force people to quit and a ploy to force remotes to either go into office or relocate.

Tell Dell is around the corner and this is the time of year where Dell loves to announce some new change, so maybe they will tone it down a bit? Hopeful thinking but... One can dream

Too bad....so sad.

RTO is a scam

We are experiencing same stuff but our managers are convinced that RTO increased productivity and ignoring the fact that individuals are working harder because almost half the team has been let go and we're desperately trying to keep up.

RTO is a failure