Nearly half of Dell’s full-time workforce in the U.S. has rejected returning to the office. They’d rather work from home than get promoted..
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-half-dell-full-time-215348261.html?guccounter=1
Are half of the Dell employees plain lazy? Should MD replace them with AI?
It should be considered that much of the workforce is not within range of an office and therefore, have no choice. Also, there are many positions that are exempt. Unfortunately the way the questionnaire was worded did not offer that third option. Just "I will" or "I will not". So, those numbers can be slanted without taking into consideration of the big picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X99UhMAOM0
“ you're analogy was morranic. proving dell does not hire the best and brightest”
Clearly. Good Lord. I hope we didn’t hire you…
And they’ll all be bleating when the roles get moved to Bangalore where people are keen to work and cost a whole lot less. Typical entitled Yanks
@2itd+1taNLRZl coffee-baking, it's a thing and manager does same 🙈
Some people, but not all, in my group come in around 9:30 - 10:00 work maybe two hours and punch out by noon time. That's their day. Manager sees it and acknowledges it. They get their three days in but certainly not 24 hours.
"you're analogy was morranic"
if you can do you job in an office in the USA
workers in an office in india can replace you.
you're analogy was morranic. proving dell does not hire the best and brightest
if you can do your job from home,some other A hole can do it from India and probably just as well. So SEE yah
If Dell thinks that I can only be productive from one specific building, then great! I will be at that specific building. No earlier than 8AM. No later than 5PM.
In addition I will delete any and all work programs, email, etc off of any personal devices. I will not be bringing a Dell issues laptop home with me. I've been told my very very smart executives (and their well paid consultants) that I can ONLY be productive from that one very specific building, so I will not do any Dell related activities outside of said specific building.
Is this what you wanted. Is this what you had in mind. Is this what you wanted?
Cuz, this is what you're getting.
What? So folks can't just buy a new house close to on the office with 25 year high mortgage rates, all time high home prices, high gas prices, and high inflation. This is truly shocking... to Dell management. Lets reduce those carbon emissions having people sit in traffic 2 hours a day, it will help them fill out worthless spreadsheets faster. Supposedly. If it doesn't work blame dei.
The management is full of nimrods.
they liquidated and sold everything they could garage sale. Then required return to office acting like nothing happened.
i have heard h1b renting out bunkbeds so they can punch in the 3days a week and drive back home. some rentals have become half way houses for dell employees. joke
I agree with the previous post. The nearest office to me is over 200 miles away, and no one I work with is there anyhow. It's not as if there's an office down the street and I'm wilfully going remote anyhow. I'm certainly not going to move only get WFR'ed and end up stuck in some city where I didn't want to live in the first place.
Feel like a broken record here, but Dell closed countless offices during the pandemic, and chose to not reopen them. The majority of people that I work with, myself included, my manager, etc, literally don't have an office to return to. "Oh, but you can uproot your life, relocate, and on your own dime." Like that's really an option? Making this all sound like we're choosing to 'rebel' and go remote when in reality it's the only option is disingenuous and insulting. Add to this: everyone I work with is spread across the US and other continents. So again, it makes zero sense to go into the office (if it even existed!) to join a Teams meeting at 5AM.
A result of cutting their workforce en-masse. During the second quarter of 2024, Dell shelled out $364 million in severance expenses, according to its latest earnings report. In 2023 alone, Dell paid over $700 million in severance costs after it conducted two rounds of layoffs.
Good, we cannot let them make us our lives their toy. Pre-remote times are not coming back!
We don't live for working.
Also company can fire you anyway, just after giving up your life comfort to serve them, you will be more wasted.
To their chagrin.
Had you picked hybrid, do you feel double crossed and duped now?
You know they will lay off remote, hybrid, onsite all the same.
The RTO isnt about everyone, it feels like it is about everyone because we are all impacted, but it isnt.
Many of us work well from anywhere, home or office, customer or partners. We work well because we are passionate about the job about the outcomes. We wake up wanting to get things done and the faster you can get to that. Awesome. It is absolutely slowed down by then needing to drive 2 hours into the office to do the same thing you could start on straight away.
But it's not about you. Its about the person next to you who doesnt feel like that. Who has not learned or leaned into anything. Who is the wrong person for the role they are in and hides behind teams with the camera off. Who leaves things for you to do or just doesnt think beyond doing the very basics of the job.
It will change, always does.
I was remote before the pandemic. I selected remote when it was offered to me. There is absolutely no reason for me to be in the office to do the same phone calls that I would do at home. There is no line of sight to a promotion anyways and I am a happier employee being able to take my 7 AM and 8 PM calls from home. Dell gets way more hours out of me being remote than they would if I had to come in the office.
There are no promotions available regardless of if you return to office. And pay raises are negligible at best. So why would I choose to return to an office?
Oh.... So I can keep my job. Well that is BS as well. 3 people on my team who have Returned to Office have been informed they are on the cut list (ISG).
So again. Why would I give up quality of life to return to an Office?
Eventually if they want change Dell will have to make a decision. Eventually the HR department will need to get some ba--s and ACTUALLY put some mandates in place instead of pushing it all onto management. If HR enacted some policies which weren’t BS then they’d get peoples attention. So far nothing. They layoff hybrid, onsite and remote, and basically people are just hanging out anyway to get paid. Why not do it at home? Dell if you want to make a change, make some policies and apply them. Don’t leave it up to the manager because as long as work is getting done not a single manager cares where their employees work from.
There are so many rumors about WFR that it is no wonder people don't care. In my area, there should be a lot of people returning to the office but I don't see it. I was at the office a month ago and had to come in Monday and Friday and the office was nearly a ghost town. The cost of everything has gone up that it is cheaper to work from home(commute time, gas, etc). If they need you, they'll bend over backwards to keep you. If they don't need you, they'll get rid of you.
@upk+1taNLRZl Emea is similar.
They want us out.
If MD replaces that half with ai given the metal capacity of the OTHER half dell will become the most stupid hw corp in the us.
Everyone will be replaced. The whole return to office was a threat to her people to quit. I’m in the office and all you see are the interns. It’s BS.
Honestly, I think so few people really have opportunities for advancement that a threat of losing the chance of promotion is just not a motivator.
they will be replaced by AI