Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

You need to grow up Dell

Dell - you need to get with it. The culture of the industry and society has changed. Working remote or hybrid isn’t the issue. That’s really not the issue. The issue is your lack of adaptation to the industry. It’s changed. People want to both work remotely and in the office. You’ve said it yourself you can work from anywhere. People want some basic things though.

Stability. They want to work for a stable company with a plan. With something behind the story. You can’t even provide a consistent place for someone to sit and don’t even have stable work at home policies. Most of your leadership team is remote! Give them a reason to stay in the buildings and they will. Your factory AI story is BS and you need to seriously understand your product suite and how to use it. Get stable.

Listen to what people have to say. Your eNPS score collectively across the company was abysmal. Instead of recognizing that, internalizing it and as a leadership team actually making a plan you pushed it down to the managers. The lack of responsibility is embarrassing.

Your employees told you exactly what the problems are and you ignored them.

Stop worrying about you and worry about us. Dell isn’t a company. It’s a bunch of individuals who come together to drive their own agendas. If the leadership continues to worry about their own individuality there won’t be a company left.

Long story short. Dell, times have changed. You have a decision.

Get with those changes or become irrelevant. So far your relevance is waning.

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Post ID: @OP+1tovVenN

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Yea - I see those Dell laptops after Lenovo, Apple and HP.

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Post ID: @1tlj+1tovVenN

All right, to summarize - Dell is the least innovative company with the least skilled workforce which is still relevant.

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Post ID: @1wgb+1tovVenN

I dont know about you, but when I walk into the office or home of nearly every person in the world and see a Dell computer, laptop, screen . . I dont think "hey, this company is irrelevant". They are prolific. Very high tech.

A lot you havent kept up to date with technology, so you are imagining the old days of plastic computers with a free printer, bundled Winamp and tiny margins with retail shops. Those days are gone. Long, long gone. CSG is a massive very connected ecosystem of premium products and integration. Its right where your stakeholders are. Then you go sell them the rest of the story and they get that all from one place.

Tell me again how those customers that all moved to using Ipads went eh? Still doing that? No, straight back to Mike

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Post ID: @1enf+1tovVenN

Dell is not irrelevant. Dell is a commodity hardware provider. Dell only has 3 competitors in PCs and servers. Because there are few competitors incompetence can flourish. Leadership can get away with being extraordinary and shockingly ineffective and the business will not suffer. The industry is flooded with no skill employees whose only skill is to inflate data in spreadsheets. If Dell invented a unique innovative solution they would not be stuck in this low margin commodity sinkhole. Unfortunately Dell's legacy is to copy what others have already created or bolt together components simeone else made and charge less. That's fine but it is not a real innovation. Doesn't require much skill. Hence employees and leaders are disposable.

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Post ID: @1rds+1tovVenN

Yea billions in back orders yet we’re laying people off left and right. That makes sense. I’ve got a bridge to sell you if you believe that. Keep drinking the cool aid.

I’d add to that list. Stop letting Bain run the company. Otherwise what does the executive team do? Listen to Bain and then execute?

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Post ID: @1xpa+1tovVenN

Dell sells hammers and nails. You'll need them but don't pretend its innovative.

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Post ID: @1lac+1tovVenN

Spot on!

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Post ID: @zjf+1tovVenN

@mkv+1tovVenN Jeff and HR have joined the chat.

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Post ID: @fwo+1tovVenN

Anyone who thinks that Dell is irrelevant is an id--t. Seriously. Every customer has Dell and needs what they do. Try working in some small 2 bit reseller and see how you go (and how many industry contacts "suddenly distance themselves" from you.

You are lying to yourself. At least stick to the facts.

Several billion in backorders and the market cap dont just happen by mistake.

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Post ID: @mkv+1tovVenN

You need to grow up and understand that if you can work from home in the U.S., your job can be transferred to somewhere else in the world for less.

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Post ID: @rwd+1tovVenN

They need less people to offset the cost of selling AI servers at negative margins so they don't lose market share to super micro. It's that simple. Dell has failed to force people out through RTO. Nothing else matters to them other than reducing head.

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