Been out of work since an April layoff, Dell ISR. I’ve been reading rumors of a soft hiring freeze until the tariff reversal case is settled in October. Any truth to that?
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@n5 the economy has been bad since 2019 but let’s not pretend it didn’t get exponentially worse in 2025. It’s the tariffs. No one is going to want to invest or hire or do anything until we have a president who doesn’t pull random tariff percentages directly out of his a$$ every few days.
@ba Oh please, go take your TDS medicine. Dell was laying off left and right under biden for the last miserable 4 years as well.. Get a grip. MD is a republican but like most companies, will bend their knee to whoever is POTUS, anyways. Which MD absolutely did to the zombie in office. Realistically, the economy has been dogwater since covid. So basically from 2019 to now.
Don't look here for answers. Dell is still in firing mode. Continue your job search.
go find a job elsewhere. Dont look back
@eg Interesting, in ISG we were told there would be no one hired externally at least until the end of the fiscal year and that some of us may have to be moved internally to align with "business needs."
They’ve been hiring this entire time. Just kids right out of college and H-1Bs mostly, but there is no “hiring freeze”. There was a whole new class of baby-faced kids getting laptops a few weeks ago at Hopkinton.
like there were no layoffs here before Trump. MD has an agenda, regardless of who is in the oval office. I heard 50,000 head count, maybe it's 40,000. There will be alot of layoffs to come. Only a matter of time folks.
No truth at all to that. Dell isn't hiring anyone until headcount us below 40k or whatever magic number their overpriced consultants handed them.
@ba Market was on borrowed time the last 4 years anyway. Middle class American is in its highest credit card debt in history. And it started jumping in 2021. Everyday Americans don’t make enough. Spend even less. And racking up debt. Not saying Trump isn’t helping. However he isn’t the sole reason.
No one is going to hire in an uncertain market and the US market is going to be uncertain until the current president is out of office. Every competent economist said a Trump presidency wouldn’t end well and now we’re reaping what was sowed. Voting matters, folks.
Keep looking elsewhere. Dell's problems are unique.