Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

A 3 year lease, announced in 3-4 months time would extend the life of Chorley to early 2021.

Current end date of the BAE contract is also in 2021. Coincidence ? You decide!

@jak

If they sign an extension this FY, it won’t take them well into the 4th year. See 2020 thread started today. These things never run like clock work, except some movement on the 2020 deadline.

Whilst I don’t agree with everything the OP has put on, he said it’ll take 3-4 months to negotiate the lease. That doesn’t mean much. Companies negotiate all the time. Presumably they’ve been negotiating for years or just extending every month.

If they negotiate a lease then obviously they’ll upgrade. I don’t recall him saying anything at all about Warrington or Lytham moving to Chorley.

I’ve been in Chorley close to 15yrs. The place is dead these days. 15yrs ago you couldn’t find a parking space nor could you find a spare desk. Today most quads apart from secure are empty.

Did you hear him mention any plans whatsoever for Chorley?

Actually yes, he stated they are negotiating a 3 year lease to be announced in 3-4 months. If true then that would take Chorley well into Year 4 of DXC surpassing the 3 year synergy cost cutting plan. Also he promised renovations for building and upgrade to network, and also the network to be extended to ex-HPE ES infrastructure so they can work from Chorley, possibly looking to move any remnants at Lytham and Warrington maybe

@1pme

Your right, it’s only the most profitable region in the Dixie world after NA. If anything in legacy CSC it was more profitable than NA in the last FY.

Well you guys just survive on accent ! - but for your accent and your fancy last names, there is NOT much in UK. What is the percentage of revenue in UK you have to substantiate the large presence of office in that location. Wake up and smell the coffee (am sure you folks invented this phrase ! ) - even that native to South America !.

@1myj

Bang on. Scotland was mentioned by Wilson, so was Newcastle, Hooke and Aldershot, he spoke in detail about the plans for those sites. Everything else is subjective at best. There are long term strategies for those sites. The surprising thing is Chorley doesn’t have a lease. It’s extended by month. This is from the CSC era so this isn’t a Wilson thing.

Anyone else you thinks that their site or work is somehow superior to the work done on the preferred DXC sites is living in cuckoo land. Your only there because of the client you serve. If they leave your either getting Tupe (which isn’t a bad thing) or your f---ed.

Our glorious leaders made it quite clear there will only be 5 areas of the country they want offices in

North East (so that's Newcastle), North West (your guess is as good as mine lots of HP ES and CSC offices there), Scotland (Erskine), Aldershot, and our token London office to impress visitors.

The rest of us whether you are ex CSC or ex HP ES are all ****ed, the only unknown is how long before they close your office, and if you ask the question all you get back is the standard "DXC are constantly reviewing our real estate but no decision has been made about at the current time."

If you think things are bad in Chorely, try Bristol, canteen is reduced end of Oct, security guards removed end of Nov, and that's only via word of mouth, no official communication, why would mere staff need to know anything? Can't help think there was a 1 year lease signed when DXC created so closed by April.

Plus Chorely was graced with a leadership roadshow, you must be special.

Like most rants on this forum, the OP has mixed half truths with copious amounts of hyperbole. What's the saying, "A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing"

The grunt of the UK secure work....

When you look at how much secure work HPE does in comparison to CSC, you will find CSC barely scratches the surface. There is no secure work other than BAE being done from Chorley, maybe a handful of people on HMPO and that’s it.

CSC has f--- all left, and even BAE is not what it once was, BAE now partner with Vodafone, capita, cap Gemini amongst others. CSC does bog standard stuff for BAE.

CSC lost large chunks of Leonardo in the new contract too.

CSCs bull sh--ting lying managers made you think the pipeline is good in secure, in actual fact it’s the opposite.

I’m saying if Wilson could have it his way, Hooke will be closed and everyone moves to Aldershot. Also Aldershot will have the largest UK DV cleared staff population in the UK. A whole tower will be dedicated to just secret high secure work.

Correct, 3yr lease which takes you to the end of the 3yr plan, Chorley network and site facilities are sh-- as Wilson mentioned. Did you hear him mention any plans whatsoever for Chorley?

Given that he was in Chorley during the briefing it would have been wise to say something positive. Instead he chose to say it’ll take 3-4 months to negotiate a 3yr extension to the lease.

DXC is dead. Get a cloud certification and get another job.

So you're saying ALL former CSC workers not at Aldershot will be gone in two years? unlikely. All the grunt work for UK secure accounts is done at Chor/Chest, not just BAE. Who will pick up the work? RP is high cost compared to the northern sites.

I don't recall seeing this in any investor pack. Link?

ES was much bigger than CSC so of course there will be more roles at ex-ES locations. Pointless looking at this to see where the future of the UK org lies.

As long as they keep the BAE contract Chorley and Chesterfield will remain. If they decide to merge the two, my guess would be Chezzy to be closed

A further Chorley 3 year lease extension currently being negotiated according to Nick Wilson at this week's Roundtable. He also said good chance Hook going to Aldershot.

If BAE drop DXC then hopefully we get TUPEd out to whoever, maybe they go in house