And it's deliberate, because talent costs money. But people are the foundation. Everything else can be replaced or fixed. That can't. Especially if you’re gunning to stay on top.
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@ka I was one of those expensive resources and I agree. I asked my manager before my exit date if my salary was an issue (I would have considered a cut), but was told it's just restructuring. I think it's really a combination of bringing cheaper resources and freeing up money for capital investments. Either way, it's not a good long term strategy.
Leadership doesnt see employees as talent. They see them as a cost to lower.
Get back on your wheel and start running, There is no upward
@mp Agree completely. Look at all the acquisitions Dell has squandered over the years. Dell wouldn't know how to integrate new shoelaces into an old pair of shoes. All they know how to do is buy technologies then run them into the ground without advancing their codebases. EMC products haven't been touched in over 10 years.
Dell hasn't cared about retaining or recruiting talent for over 20 years now. The last time the talent level increased even marginally was when Dell bought EMC and we can all see how horribly they handled that acquisition.
I think part of their strategy is getting rid of expensive resources and replacing them with multiples of cheap resources with AI. Companies are now saying that AI can make a weak resource look strong. Is this true? Who knows. This is coming a lot faster than the adoption of the internet.
@OP There are so many things wrong with that statement.
First of all, anyone is replaceable. Anyone!
Second, what talent? Even when Dell has talented people, it doesn't know what to do with them. No processes, no structure, no discipline. We're last in virtually every category we try to compete in. We can't ship anything on time. We have to pull products off the shelf because they are so buggy. And customer service scores have plummeted.
Third, LOL!! Since when was Dell top of anything? We're a low-cost, cheap, parts assembly vendor. That's it. That's all.
We're in a weird loop of ignorance and hubris. Not like the typical Dell way of attrition, this one's far more aggressive. The suits actually believe that AI is going to vault the brand into the atmosphere. Most of us will likely be on the outside by the time they realize it.