DXC is gutting talent that is underutilized and misunderstood. I think sub contractors work for cheaper. Thoughts?
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Most of the contractors have fantastic certifications but they don’t know c-ap Most of them can’t The bug themselves however it’s soaking wet paper bag
buck rogers Gig economy (contractors) with be the death of worker rights
SQM-3ctr - Good post no need to blame the good contractors that's along with permanent staff trying to do their best and deliver the best digital solution to the clients
The fault lies in choatic specifications not tied down, poor management control of support and projects being undertaken along with the upper Management and Shareholders short term view of gutting talent, costs, overshoring bits and pieces (without knowledge transfer) to make a quick $$ buck
Re: Contractor run up the cost cause they are paid by the hour.
This is incorrect when contractors are limited to 40 hours, like me. Further, when HPE decided that it was going to reduce costs, it told the contracting company how much less they were going to pay. The contracting company then slashed pay by almost but not quite 20%.
With as many layoffs as the(my) contracting company has seen, they are doing anything to prevent their UI premiums going any higher.
So you can try to blame contractors, but only from an ignorant or generalizing position.
Unfortunately, I have heard the term 'meat' to refer to staff - 'deeply disrespectful'.
We all have a choice and a soul!
All stakeholders are to blame: Management / Clients / Shareholders
The share price will not rise with this attitude - need the biblical flood and the rise of the phoenix!
Leave of your own free will.
PPMC is the biggest load of cow dung ever invented and used by DXC. A kindergarten child could have done a better job, yet DXC preferred to employ layers of approvers (aka managers) that did not understand their responsibilities nor did they care either.
So glad to never need to use that c-appy tool, cos I will never return to Cheap Skate City or Delirious Xtreme Choking.
Contractor run up the cost cause they are paid by the hour.
if a piece of wood props the door open, does it matter how pretty it is?
I am not sure talent enters into it. Its all about salary and cost base. Their intention is to have a sweatshop full of "kids" to serve clients who appear to be going in other, quicker directiions with suppliers who are much more value and delivery focussed.
Generally, anywhere else, sub-contracts work for a lot more - and its an easy, quick way to make lots of money providing you are happy to pay for your own training, pension and get someone to do your tax returns. Few contractors would want to work for DXC unless unless the money was right and the term short enough to get out, as enterprises such as DXC delays payments to most suppliers and 'days outstanding' with DXC could be a nightmare for you if you are also expected to eat and pay your mortgage.
The model DXC want to aim for is a thin base of cheap resource and only hiring and firing the complex skills when a job requires it. This of course reduces consistency of the quality and consistency of delivery and ensures there are long lead times on large jobs and few skilled resource on medium and small jobs (which you've all seen around you right now). The current pipeline isn't sufficient to maintain this model and might sink the middle of DXC before it has a full order book.
Having left DXC and had a chance to work for a healthy company, the importance is on having the right skills at the right place at the right time and ensuring you are all planned, scoped and resourced up 6 weeks before starting a job, i.e. that those resources are booked and committed for those dates. Whereas I remember at DXC we were still looking for resource 2 weeks into a job which we'd already delayed for lack of resources (and these were first time clients too!). I'd be fired if I allowed that to happen in my new job and there would be emergency meetings with the client CEO to explain our mess and delay and likely we'd have to absorb costs. Yet, that was the norm at DXC and I always wondered how they generated enough margin on some accounts as they couldn't resource them.
Resource management at DXC has never worked. The accounts provide ridiculous pipeline of maybe's, probable's, could-be's and only the routine stuff was firm. The resource people then had a massive gap with ficticious demand and couldn't hire anyway, so were in a queue of requests for named staff in-case they became free.