Staff have been awarded a 4.8% pay rise, backdated to 1 January, and a further 0.75% from 1 October.
DXC STAFF - 0% and lies for a year
BAE STAFF - Staff have been awarded a 4.8% pay rise, backdated to 1 January, and a further 0.75% from 1 October.
All staff will additionally receive an additional day of annual leave while Unite members will get a one-off further day's leave.
All staff are due to receive a one-off £500 and a half-hour earlier finish time each day.
@23a I'm not sure where in the country you are based but of all the sites I've worked at I can't say this is true at all.
Most people I know who work at BAE, are just as miserable as DXC staff. Just with an annual payrise... the grass isn't always greener.
There's allot of DXC management who have jumped over to the client. They've brought their sh---y DXC ways with them.
Allllllll the peopleeeeee...
Logging in’s a ritual for the weary-eyed techie at exactly eight‑oh‑oh (DXC‑life)
And keeping Teams from going idle takes a script that runs all day, you know (DXC‑life)
Mark’s got three monitors, he gets flustered when his status flips to “Away”
The boss hates a yellow dot (DXC‑life)
Who’s that bloke in gym shorts? Says he’s “on lunch” but it’s only half past ten
He’ll bench‑press on work time, mate — then stroll back in again.
My day at BAE. Login. Set script to stop teams and screen locking every 5 mins and then taking 90s to unlock...
Switch off 8hrs later having received nothing all day.
Meanwhile. I did some of my own stuff while being available if required. They just can see that their slowness at everything costs them money. But their share price goes up, while DXCs goes down. So maybe none of that matters. As long as I get paid.
never mind! if you're in the UK, you ain't getting sheeeeeet.
watch this space.
I used to think success meant grinding non-stop, being glued to your laptop, and proving your worth every single minute of the day.
Now?
My laptop stays logged in. My status stays green. And somehow, that’s the least interesting part of my day.
Because behind the scenes, I’ve built a side hustle that has completely changed the game. What started as “just a little extra income” has turned into something that’s generating serious money — the kind that makes you question everything you were taught about careers, effort, and how wealth is actually created.
It’s surreal.
While one screen sits idle, another part of my life is scaling, growing, and compounding at a pace I didn’t think was possible without burning out.
And that’s the real shift:
We’ve been conditioned to trade time for money.
But the real unlock is building something that works for you, whether you’re actively working or not.
This isn’t about working harder.
It’s about playing a completely different game.
We’re watching the definition of “a job” collapse in real time. The people quietly building on the side? They’re not just earning extra — they’re rewriting the rules entirely.
The wildest part?
This kind of leverage is more accessible than ever.
Most people just haven’t realized it yet.
We are talking about the pay rises with the ayatollah - will keep you posted.
@12b Nice of you to join us Derek. But save your sh1te for the town halls!!
Believe what you want. I'm sure there's some truth, and some exaggeration. But somewhere in here people are telling it how it is. Mostly in the hope the whole BAE contract gets canned and we all get that VR we keep asking for but keeping being told but there's a chargeable project so no. Even if all there is to do is wait for BAE to test a 5 line code change and deploy it. Which takes months!!
I do have extended lunches and early knock off often due to my gigolo activities which is raking in more than my dxc salary but can be exhausting!
What's with all the LinkedIn tier s*** posting on here?
I would bet my entire monthly wage that none of you have a side hustle. All this talk of "working while striking" and logging in at 9 and returning at 5 to log out is very convenient for an anonymous message board.
Perhaps this only relates to one random office somewhere in the world because it certainly isn't happening in the UK.
OMG DXC has never ever given annual merit pay increases. Wake up!
The job is effectively part-time, which has actually given me the chance to build up a side hustle that now earns almost as much as my DXC wage. If I’d jumped ship for a bit more money, I’d probably be stuck in an office full-time and wouldn’t have been able to do both. As it is, there’s no conflict of interest, and I can manage them side-by-side.
DXC has been quiet since before Christmas, which has allowed me to get a lot done on my own. That’s where the real demonstration of my skills comes in—pushing a few emails and waiting for the client to test things isn’t exactly challenging, but that seems to be all they want right now.
Only a fool relies on one source of income in these times! And only a fool sits there letting their skillset go to waste. If DXC want to pay us to wait while they can't plan properly. And the client wants to pay to retain us just incase. That's on them!
@fv Exactly this, DXC carried just on treating their people as bad as HPES had previously. My biggest regret will always be staying so long.
BAE don’t want DXC!
If you take DXC out of the equation, the staff have useful skills—but it all depends on whether BAE are willing to commit to employing them long term.
It’s certainly cheaper for them. They can either pay DXC £250k or employ the same people directly for a fraction of that cost. On the face of it, it seems like a no-brainer—but BAE make so much profit it doesn’t seem to bother them how much money they waste.
lol dxc people leave if can get another job rather than bleating on.
uk quite a few tupe from bae into csc.. quite a few tuped back. So if you are still dxc..then bae clearly glad to get rid...
@fg No we'll just quit. Having effectively retired 12 months ago anway, and have just been taking our VR in installments! As it's not been forthcoming as a single payment. Their choice - same result!
It wasn't my choice, but my boss needed me out as quick as possble, and so I got WFR.
It was a bit shocking at the time, but now I'm glad. I do have one regret though - that I stayed too long.
The first job I applied for, I got. I'm enjoying working and feeling valued again, which feels a bit unreal - I NEVER got that at dxc and I NEVER got a payrise
So why post this? Consider your existance in dxc is really to be institutionalised. You are made to believe you're not individually worthy (bell curve) and to be grateful to have a job (indiscriminate WFR) and your promotion/payrises (It never happens)
Forget about WFR and payrises - dxc UK is an evil place for your soul.
If you can leave, do so
When Perseus comes around and only DXC hosting remains, those in other towers that are TUPE'd obviously won't get away with sitting there doing nothing for 8 hours once you have a competent company as an employer. Are you going to be happy that you will finally have to do a days work to do or not?
@f4 Indeed. People aren't not working because they are lazy. It's because BAE won't cut the ties and let us go. There is no - I did nothing WBS code. So the waste is hidden. We're not being managed properly. We're not being paid to care! Our skill sets have been left to rot. Given that BAE salarys have increased ~25% in the last 5 years, and DXC 1%?. This outcome was entirely predictable.
@ew it's clearly just rage bait. Nobody who says this here actually does it.
BAE staff could probably have seen a better pay rise if DXC weren’t effectively being kept on standby as a “just in case” resource. @cw isn’t the only one in that situation — a lot of us are largely waiting for BAE work to appear, with the occasional question or task in between.
What’s frustrating is that DXC increased the rate card by 4.6% in January. Yet employees see none of that increase. We’re effectively charged out at contractor-level rates while being paid closer to junior developer salaries.
Out of curiosity I compared the charge-out rate with typical contracting equivalents. The rough estimate was that the rate being billed would equate to around £130k+ in permanent salary terms, yet the actual salary I'm paid is only a fraction of that.
So it’s not surprising morale is low and people disengage. If the company wants higher productivity and more commitment, the solution seems fairly obvious: pay people more fairly and equally, treat them well, and give them the tools and processes to work efficiently. That benefits everyone — staff, delivery, and ultimately the business.
@cw then you should be fired.
My day at DXC - this is my ‘pay-rise’..
@b3 8-10% is a bit of a stretch.
There's plenty of money and pay raises in DXC.
Your pay goes into the DXC Execs good living fund.
They receive millions from you and then tell you sorry we can't afford you raises.
Sad thing is it happens year after year.
@an It is not ridiculous. Industry standard is 8-10% raise each year plus bonuses, 13th salary, individual raises based on delivery etc. 4% is... well. Even HR gets 10% each year in most company I know and they do not earn less than people in DXC l, for real.
@ap BAE get pay increases every year. The strike was over the percentage.
Friends in Shared Services have had a consistent 4+% every year since they joined the company five years ago.
@an because? If one has not received a raise in years, it does not even make up for the lost purchasing power. Raise is about giving more purchasing power, not going back to square one.
@ab what a ridiculous take.
4,8% is hardly a raise, rather an adjustment, but still better than nothing.
Where the fu-k is unite for DXC?