Staff notified on Tuesday. Looks like 500. VR being offered first. Same old, same old. Final decision by 8th June.
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Correction not even UK Secure billing Consultants are safe.....complete Madness!
I hope this totalitarian lockdown is over by the time we get turfed out of the company. I'd hate to be unemployed, with all that time on my hands, but unable to go out and about.
This WFR is the biggest non-event ever. Only the productive billable workers are leaving now.
Come August, there'll still be the same tired managerment layer with the same sticky hasbeen employees. Nothin's goona change, all controls are still set for the ground sir!
Garden leave Friday. Gone on the 12th
@@6dxl+15akbhlt : Your post does not make sense. Has the Blind Tiger pub re-opened already??
@6nvs+15akbhlt I was the same. Best advice I can give is just line something up and leave, don't worry about the payment. Best decision I've made in years.
I want this VR so bad but cant seem to get it. Instead I'm stuck in a division (W&M) where all the talk is positive and how we are a big part of future DXC and the positivity seems so false and it is draining. I hate DXC and want to just leave but after 20 +yrs right or wrong I want to hang on and get a VR package
I feel for the people that have to suffer this c-ap again, year after year. Get out when you can, it's a real loser company. Managers were brain dead when I left years ago, still are, from what I've read. VR is the only viable option. If you can do it, go for it, and don't look back!
There will be a real push to compartmentalise "secure accounts" and get as much of it off-shored as possible, while trying to circumvent original client requirements in their relevant SALs. Cloud ops –> India, SOC –> Bulgaria, that sort of thing. When you think that we mainly just deliver COTS technologies, it's amazing how UKPS offerings remain so over-complicated, with a "computer says no" mentality. As a company, we're about as agile as Jabba The Hutt.
@5jpc+15akbhlt it's happened with the Project Managers, they are effing useless.
"The smug 'Secure Accounts' people will be targeted next"
To Mr. "Sour grapes", on behalf of my secure account colleagues, we send our congratulations to you on coming first
Its very good of you
The smug 'Secure Accounts' people will be targeted next - they will be replaced by cheap labour brought in on so-called Apprentiships. Plus, of course, someone is eventually going to realise that much of the 'work' on the secure accounts is totally unneccesary!
Stop hiring are you mad, they are hiring people with nothing to do at the moment and firing people who they know have good skills. Mike get on the phone and stop all recruitment immediately.
Are L1-L4 in scope of redundancy?
Non-scoring means you're out unless they make the numbers up with VR, I'm afraid. Even then, technically they are making the role, not you redundant. Sorry, and I hope you find work with a better employer in the near future.
How do you discover how many there are in your pool? If it's a non scoring pool wtf does that mean? I'm fairly sure that that means it doesn't matter how useful you are, how high your appraisal scores are it's just on how expensive you are to keep or bin.
A company that has for years been run by an incompetent set of so called Managers. Finally, we are seeing that. Jesus couldn't save this debacle now... I wouldn't even try J C!
@3bgm+15akbhlt The reason so many people are getting letters is due to the pool sizes, many pools from people I've spoken to have ratios of about 1 in 6, so if they want to get rid of 5 people from a group, 30 people have to be in the pool etc. I've seen pool sizes from 6 - 40 and odds from 1:6 to 1:2 (!)
Will be interesting to see who is left in the UK come 1st of July, and more importantly who will be running the Q2 redundancy scheme, Mike said another 4500 to go so this is just the start of another fun filled year at DXC
Agreed we need less layers, get rid of the others from levels 8 to 10 and the company will run much better. And stop hiring as theres no need for extra staff as the company is shrinking mid term revenues, natural waste will mean no need for redundancy.
How come some many people are getting letters when theres 500 to go, silly really just need to identify the non productive 500 managers not client facing people and get on with it. Also I don't understand why they are hiring more people in covid as they are just sat doing nothing as they cant get up and running. The uk management are so incompetent best to replace most of them as they are just yes men who don't use their brain.
Crazy stuff. I work in what's left of the SAP practice. It's been decimated to the point where we're now unable to deliver any medium size projects in the UK. I don't think clients believe we can deliver anything out of the UK anymore. Only a matter of time before we're all gone or sold, not that there's much left to sell. Atos, Cap, etc must be loving it.
I'm guessing this WFR doesn't affect those working in FDS (Field Delivery Services)? Which is owned by DXC. There's not been any announcement.
And following on from this WFR bloodbath... another drive to offshore all of the UK.
All those L1-4 jobs you think are safe? Safe until the offshore reaper comes in the next quarter.
The only chance for safety is if you work on UK secure accounts.
It looks to me like pretty much everyone in the UK has had the infamous letter drop.
I've been on calls with various accounts this week and it doesn't matter who it is or which client, everyone is on the chopping block. These people are hands on technical people too as well as delivery managers etc. Its topic of the moment on all calls right now - "so who here has the email?"
I have a theory that its more than 500 to go, the CEO on his earnings call last night talked about 4500 jobs they were cutting this time and with more to come.
I suspect they've put everyone in the UK in a pool and are waiting for individuals to fight to be kept in some sort of ghastly Darwinian exercise.
What a roller coaster ride! Lots of fun, what a great company DXC is...... Not!
Same old same old - may be new Mikey is removing as much duplication as possible and leaning the UK org prior to some legs / (unlikely all the legs ) being sold off.
It's a blood bath for levels 5-8, many pools, lots of numbers.
Seems purely driven by some spreadsheet in the states, no sensible reasons behind the targets.
Rumour has some drastic changes for how teams are run, will have to be if the numbers being gossiped are right.
Any feel for which accounts have been targeted?
Everyone out of the door by 30 June.