It’s very simple, when you treat your employees bad, you lose. “Happy employees equal happy customers. ... By not treating employees well, companies risk losing customers over bad service.” The clients have lost all respect for DXC, and rightly so. Until this changes, which is doubtful, the layoffs and losses will continue to spiral downward. Sad that our leaders just don’t get this.
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I heard that theres going to be big cull of managers as they have finally accepted all they do tick boxes, and meetings.
A new tick box process is being introduced which staff can refer to and if everything is correct there will be no need for a manager to approve. This will save millions.
For the meetings all town halls will be done by Mike Sal as there is no need for 3 layers of Management to repeat the same town hall message.
Thus after removal of these expensive redundant management layers the company will become competitive and shall be in a better position to win business.
Conducting a funeral for DXC will require expenses to be approved by the army of approvers. Better option is to work less hours and blame the rubbish tools for not working properly.
So glad that Lawrie WFR'd me 2 years ago and my health was restored. So sad to leave behind so many wonderful hard working employees and so many useless managers.
This company is dead. Let's have the funeral and get on with our lives.
"t's so important that approval for a 100 dollars / euros / pounds / rupees or whatever is authorised by a Vice President or similar."
100 pounds? My favourite story is approval for a £4 expense having to be authorised by an Executive Vice President. The truly scary thing was that no one in the approval chain thought this was wrong.
Hey, come on people, it's impossible to get rid of all those endless layers of management, as we need them to sign off vital expenses for tiny amounts. It's so important that approval for a 100 dollars / euros / pounds / rupees or whatever is authorised by a Vice President or similar. Can't be trusting business areas or line managers to exercise common sense now can we?
UK Management have always been a waste of space procedural yes Managers. Who cant think for themselves or add any useful value.
I don't know why they don't get rid of them and replace them with Artificial intelligence which approves overtime, travel, expenses, appraisals, or any other tick box function they do or a website which can be referred to. No need for them, How hard can it be can it be to program tick box yes men.
Just imagine the boost for automation, and the company would become profitable instantly.
Easy fix, no brainer.
Given that the target right this second seems to be delivery in the UK I'd guess the reason is most likely that the ceo particularly hates the UK or the UK leader is a total brown nose. Or maybe both.
I've not heard much of mainland Europe carnage. Same old same old.
- - "If anyone can explain to me how a team of people assembling a large new project bid for a long time customer (who isn't leaving) can all be facing WFR come Monday, then please do explain."
DXC is critically desparate. Its collapse is coming in too fast.
So, to try and keep the share price up, the board need to pretend more about its future profitablity today.
What is happeneing is called "ditch and switch". Your replacement s planned to be paid 10 times less than you
Its precisely because your project is in the bag, that you can be got rid of - you are considered surplus to share holder PROFIT NEEDS.
@3xqk It makes no sense, just like making people redundant who are chargeable for the foreseeable future makes no sense.
My guess is that it's been decided at HQ that we need to save a large amount of money and the easiest way of doing it is to use a blunt axe on the workforce.
I feel for those impacted by this madness.
Its because theres too many s— up managers s—ing up to the next level. Even when theres some stupid procedure brought out they don't have the guts to say so.
So what Mike's is doing may not be that bad, we don't need tick box procedural manager layers, we need managers who will sell products, reward staff, and market the company.
I would just make it a 6 layer company, don't need pen pushing bureaucratic yes men layers who add no value.
@3xqk+15hgWVIL i dont understand anything in this company And I don't try anymore
If anyone can explain to me how a team of people assembling a large new project bid for a long time customer (who isn't leaving) can all be facing WFR come Monday, then please do explain.
I can understand why you might want to look at areas of the business that aren't growing but why basically throw revenue away when its a dead cert win?
I'm sure the customer will be impressed too.
DXC is by far the worst organisation I have ever worked for! The treatment of their employees and manipulation of their bonus system to minimise bonuses to employees, that have worked huge hours week in week out, to enable DXC to meet revenue targets is absolutely disgusting!
No one can defend their behaviour that is supported by ppl management that instils their “culture”! I will never forget and I wish the total failure!
Mike S and all his cronies are classic narcissists and narcissists only surround themselves with two types of people 'enablers' and 'tongue biters'! Anyone around them that does not fit into one of these two categories will be given the boot. But first the narcissist will discipline you with their collection of manipulation tactics. So when they do give you the boot, you'll be sure to go out believing that the reasons for your dismissal were all your fault.
I have no idea how the organisation works anymore. Perhaps I never did. I've seen experienced guys laid off whilst they were working on active projects. Yes it cut costs but in doing so it also cut the revenue, k–led morale and confused the client. The same guys literally walked into jobs with our competitors. Next time we go to deliver a project we're weaker. We win less work. Client has no confidence in our ability to deliver. The more I think about, the more I wish I'd put in for VR this time as I'm in a pool.
New Mike, same sh1t. The company is still morally bankrupt, perhaps more so than in the Mike Lawrie days. At least Mike Lawrie didn't pretend to be anything that he wasn't. Sal tells you how much he values people, before he sacks the people.....
Emporer’s new clothes!! How to turn around a company with a reputation for not being able to deliver? Sack the useful employees you rely on and then get defensive on the call when you inform them...hood call! At least the old Mike was brutally honest with his staff.
sail in the storm makes a very good point about the ridiculous layers of bureaucracy in this company. I used to be a customer of HPE and the simplest request would involved "oh that needs to go through governance" and impact-assessed and run past the lawyers to find a loophole or a reason to charge more money. It's almost civil service-esque in terms of stubborn refusal to change 'that's how we've always done it'. Our contracts need to be more compatible with Agile delivery models and actually empowering client-facing delivery staff.
worst management staff from immediate to all the way at the top. I think we need a direct link to Conduent from here, same sh– with the different ticker symbol
I think you are over stating the authority any middle management has. All decisions, all approvals, all the poor strategy, all WFR targets are decided and micro-managed from Tyson's. The company is rotten at the top and has been since April 1st 2017 (probably before). Managers who do not then do what they are told are removed. What would you do in their place... I agree DXC may have too many layers and not all managers will be good but the toxic environment at the top is what drives your pain.....
Agree with +15hgWVIL. The management in this company and previously CSC was the worse I ever seen and put us to shame when working with our then clients. Customer X wanted Project n done for £x, DXC would do it as cheaply as possible - little resources, people doing more than one persons job with little training and support, often with conflicts orders / control from the so called DXC project managers.
Even a simple Change request had to go up to 3 levels of DXC management with long delays to get approved and the customer would have to pay on top as well as feeling exhausted waiting for the change to be done.
Don't thing any of the managers within DXC care what's happening, how hard they work their staff, who they get rid off regardless of appraisals of employment law and they only care they have is to do a standard week (40 hrs), get others to do overtime (often weekends and nights) and simply collect the pay check and bonus for doing little as possible.
The company since formation it seems it simply keeps on going through the bad practices it had under CSC, there is only matter of time before Mikey leaves collects his cheque and to fire sale the company off.
Would hope new Mikey would have been better from Mike Lawrie who drove the company nearly into the ground and severely damage DXC's reputation.
I'm with 'GladImOuttaThere'...the greatest single challenge with DXC is the shady middle managers. Particularly the ancient EDS holdovers. There are several that still refer to the company as EDS...a company that evaporated in a dozen years ago.
It truly does not matter who sits at the helm of this ship, when the deck hands are all cut-throat pirates.
At least a fire sale brings in revenue for the things you no longer need, but this WFR is something else.
Its the equivlent of the Titanic sinking, where employees are thrown overboard to buy some extra float time. The ship is stil sinking
The low share price and no dividend says all
Bad, repugnant Managers will bring this company down. When I was there, I never saw so many back stabbing cretins in my career in IT. I saw signs of several managers going into rooms, conspiring together, to remove people, even though they had great appraisal records, to save their own backsides. How they sleep at night I don't know. DXC will fail in the long run. Just watch.