Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

I'm in Aus and I just got retrenched! Look out for number one people and good luck.

WFR's are not on hold. More planned for Aus over the next 2 months... Big number reduction planned locally for November. You should have realized by now DXC only serves itself and has no regard for their staff. That's normal for a multinational but after what I've witnessed locally my loyalty to this company was just plain stupid. Wise up people. The writing is on the wall. If you get offered a package, take it. Don't hesitate. Take your time if you must but make a sound decision.

As a former employee of DXC in Australia (a happy statistic for ML's bonus) I have been informed that DXC has realised that they have WFR'd TOO MANY employees and future WFR's are on hold. Meanwhile DXC employees should look forward to no pay rises unless your name is ML or his HR GF.

So it's back to work tomorrow after the Xmas/New Years break. It should be interesting to see what happens before the 14th of Feb. but I expect more layoffs this month. Good luck everybody.

Well there is one more work day and I haven't seen huge layoffs this month. If anyone know's of who, what and where state the details here!

@UVEdLlx-1zdmg

Healthcare is not expensive to buy (at least in the UK - not sure where you are)

I worked from home before and I work from home (with expensed travel where necessary) now

It's worth consideration...

4 people I've know for more than 18 years have just been retrenched in Australia and it's only the 7th of the month.

I've got a feeling a lot more are coming. Have you seen the stock price?

Contract work with no healthcare, not what I am looking for.

I already work from home, so that would be required unless the salary was a huge increase

@UVEdLlx-1xqmc

"...Getting a job at age 58 is not as easy as you think, who wants someone that is this close to retirement? Not many I am afraid.."

Don't you believe it.....I am 58 - I took the VR package in March 2018 and was back at work as a contractor on hugely more money, for one of the DXC clients that I previously supported, 4 DAYS LATER!!!

So many companies need 20-somethings with 30 years experience - not grads who partied their way through university - and you have the skills and experience to offer them what they need.

My blood pressure is 15 points down, I work at the time of day I want from a home-office and I LOVE IT!

Pretty sure Lawrie is just using slash and burn tactics to show profits so he gets the automatic bumps that are probably written into his contract. It should have been an indicator when he got a 12mil-ish bump between 2016 and 2018 when no one I know has gotten anything in the last 4 years. He's just going to loot and run. Will probably end up at Oracle working for Mark Hurd.

At the end of the day its just profit for the directors and top management and screw the customers

We are already short handed and jobs are going to our vendors. EMC as project managers , installers and who knows what else.

Wish they would just do it already the stress is killing me.

Getting a job at age 58 is not as easy as you think, who wants someone that is this close to retirement? Not many I am afraid

Check this out... This was sent to everyone on Friday. Is it a sign on the new culture of DXC?

I never saw anything like this ever before the merger. You have to ask... Were do they find these id--ts?

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Hi,

I got hit today in Slovakia, 2 days after a management shakeup in India. I have 24 hours to accept the financial package.

They have already started executing in the Nordics today.

Almost every month said goodbye with my colleagues, wondering when is my turn...

Funny part is I received few colleagues’ emails with title “Today is my last day in DXC, goodbye and see you again”. Then next few days saw them in HPE or HPI projects with @hpe.com or @hp.com

Waiting to see if I am on the list in a few weeks time.

Current status is that Mikey is looking forward to bank a big bonus for laying off hard-working yet decent employees that give a sh1t. It's easy for him - all the John and Jane Does are gone with the stroke of a pen.

BAM! They have disappeared off the company books (just like that).

Managers announced about huge layoffs in official meetings , AVIVA, UBS, CBA staff are all lined up for layoffs in the coming months...

WHAT'S THE CURRENT STATUS ?

DXC Technology is horrible company to work with. One of my colleagues who worked for around 10 years in CSC/DXC , who never got any promotion during this period, got WFRed last month. He was an extremely talented guy with diversified technical skills. He was given retention bonus for the period July 2017-July 2018 and by the end of August 2018, he was WFRed. Wow - DXC !!! You had prevented him from joining jobs outside DXC in the last one year and the moment the retention period got over, you WRFed him. Not sure about other countries, but DXC in India is simply terrible. Nasty politics in every layer - managers have protected their favorite team members ( who can please the managers by any means) and the names of the others in the team have been nominated for WFR. Not sure why the investors are still investing on it - but it would not last long for sure. So many clients have discontinued contracts in the recent times , how many outsiders know it?

The lists are ready and were submitted Sep 30. Another review of the final names next week before being sent out.

The last time that I received a Retention Bonus the aim was to prevent me from leaving in order for a client contract to be fulfilled. In other words I prostituted myself for DXC. At the time I received the lump sum at the start of the period whereas nowadays the bonus is paid in installments. It is strange that the bonus is being offered now unless the clueless management believes that the remaining staff may just quit when they see their colleagues leaving and they will be left holding the bag.

Clearly cutting 60,000 employees will rattle the business and retention bonuses are an act of desperation to retain key accounts which will fail. One of my colleagues is a customer of DXC and she says "bring on the carnage as DXC deserves it all to end up in a smoking pile of sh1t".

*** In fact they mentioned that HR is planning a Retention-Bonus strategy with a signed Labor Bond of 1 year.

DXC can still kick you out but you will have to repay that retention bonus in case you leave withing 1 year. ***

I can personally vouch that this has happened in US !!

true and its happening in India

Managers announced about huge layoffs in official meetings , AVIVA, UBS, CBA staff are all lined up for layoffs in the coming months...

@UVEdLlx-enlp : Nobody is excluded, Cyberjaya is included

Are service desk technical support staff for Asian markets based in Cyberjaya, Malaysia included in the retrenchment too?

@UVEdLlx-dysu : You need proof that at least 25 IT people were WFR'd in Guadalajara, México ?

Do you need them come to your house and speak to you ? Are you some big-wig politician who can fix problems ?

@UVEdLlx-4fgl : "So much talk about this in the office" ? which office my friend ?

Not sure why techies alone are targetted as we have a huge middle management and HR teams

Exactly.. not its the techies that are at the lowest rung on the ladder. The management and HR are the ones making the decision. Its not likely they would put down their own names for WFR

Stop dreaming and come down to reality. WFR is WFR, thats when you lose your job.

Project Managers in AVIVA UK have confirmed that this news is correct.

In fact they mentioned that HR is planning a Retention-Bonus strategy with a signed Labor Bond of 1 year.

DXC can still kick you out but you will have to repay that retention bonus in case you leave withing 1 year.

100% True

I don't know about 60%, but I know some architects on my account have been pulled into meetings to start 'autmomating processes' that are currently handled manually. They are manual for a reason, since this account deals with some pretty hefty mainframes that process hundreds of millions of transactions per day. But whatever, automate a process that a highly skilled engineer does now after a lot of research. Lets bring those mainframes down for days!!

Show proof , Facts and not alternative facts. So you have a email then copy and paste it removing the TO and CC

Other use it’s all c-ap hear say

I left DXC last month after being offered a job with better salary and even though it is a massive upheaval and terrifying, I can honestly say the new company treat their staff with a lot more respect than DXC, I actually feel valued now which I never did in DXC. Change is inevitable but at least I made the change on my terms, no regrets. Only thing I miss is some of the wonderful people I worked with but so many have left before me it was getting very depressing, onward and upward! Good luck to all.......

WFR has started in Guadalajara, México. At least 25 IT people yesterday and looks like we will have a second wave soon. By december, support shouldn't exist at least in this location

This was known long ago, WFR's are here to stay till 2020.

Management might come out with a retention bonus scheme just to pretend to employees that they are safe. Maybe 5% maybe 10% but not more.

Get your job outside of DXC you could get approx 30% more salary.

Omg.... Withering situation.

'Innovation Ideas' Initiative has been rolled out so that employees will pour out their ideas in the hope of a 'BONUS'

then employees will be shown the door after their ideas have been implemented

Both former CSC staff and former HPE staff have been screwed over and over again by the crooked DXC management. Now there is no point trying to evaluate who is worth how much, its only time to get your begging bowls out once you get your WFR.

@UVEdLlx-9isi you saying

"HPE people were paid more than CSC as CSC didn't have quarterly raises and bonuses"

is bloody funny, it would be a a very rare former HPE-er that has had a pay rise in the last 6 - 10 years. HPE leadership did talk about replacing annual salary rises with quarterly salary reviews but they both meant the same thing, nothing for staff, just more $$$ for the leaders.

There is no point arguing who was the most screwed beforehand, we were both screwed by our leaders and it is only getting worse. DXC is a total disaster for both staff and customers.

@UVEdLlx-9nnj HPE people were paid more than CSC as CSC didn't have quarterly raises and bonuses that I keep hearing my ES colleagues asking about when they are getting.

Most of CSC haven't had a pay raise since Mikey rolled into town, maybe longer, which means they definitely are a good deal behind market rate.

Mikey keeps banging on about the "labour pyramid", when actually he means a salary one.

If you are onshore and aren't a senior manager and you are paid anything like or over the market rate, you are for the chop, leaving the poorly paid only.

Guess who's getting the axe on that basis... from what I saw most of ES were onshore...

"the majority of DXC employees being WFR'd are ex HPE or ES staff. " If you ever looked on glassdoor at salary information prior to merger you would have found that HPE paid significantly more than CSC (senior programmer analyst 20K difference) . When trying to save expense with a WFR why wouldnt you go for dumping the higher salaries ? I hoped that CSCers would have gotten large raises to even it out somewhat after the merger but that just didnt happen.

"the majority of DXC employees being WFR'd are ex HPE or ES staff. "

Yes, because CSC had virtually no survivors before the merger and HPE staff were almost 5 times as many...

Have a look at the reality - the majority of DXC employees being WFR'd are ex HPE or ES staff. As a result mostly CSC staff will remain and a few useless ES staff. What a good mix for a now Tier 2 company.