Since we've been back a few weeks now, observations are the buildings are 95% empty, the cafeteria stinks (really..barbeque every day), the workstations are ill equipped with cheap keyboards, monitors and mouse. Most people have invested in a good home office over the past years that going back to the office is a big step backwards. All of this is not worth it given the price of gas. Do you really want to waste gas to go sit in a temporary workarea? I have comprised so much work material over the past two years that I don't want to drag it all in each day I go into the office. The only benefit of it is it may give you a day to get away from home if you need a change of pace. Other than that, going back is not really worth it. The new variant also is causing people some concern about going back. Someone is going to have to make the hard decision to determine if we really need all these buildings in Hopkinton.
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Michael Dell,
From an older article.
PALM DESERT, Calif. (CNNMoney) -- If visionary technology company founder Michael Dell could start up a business all over again, where would he do it now?
One word: China.
"I would go to China at age 19 and start my company there. It's a much better environment," said Dell's (DELL, Fortune 500) CEO in a conversation with Charlie Rose at Ernst & Young's Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Desert, Calif.
Dell has followed what's now become almost a cliched trajectory for billion dollar tech visionaries by dropping out of the University of Texas at Austin at age 19 to build a computer company that would fundamentally reshape how personal computers were made and sold.
@5pgm+1fTSynsO Maybe that is the case with some members but the minions on the ground are feeling pressure.
Maybe its from management in some countries only but doubtful that a lot of talk here is rubbish.
And you are correct on not being forced to work in Dell hence staff leaving or unhappy.
There has been no pressure or mention at all of being forced back to the office in our country. The teams are well trusted and long before COVID we were largely working remote and working well. COVID just sped the integration up for the rest of the geo. The local Dell org announced it will maintain a new office that is 1/4 of the size of the pre-covid offices and that is all we will need. Smart for costs, better for productivity and customer outcomes
I doubt if half the rubbish we read on here is true. Dell has always been a remote work supporter because the maths and outputs stack up. There are other places to work, no one is forcing you to stay.
If nobody is in the office, is it even a 'market' anymore? Kids from college in Mass are going elsewhere for jobs since they can be remote. Not sure it even matters anymore where you are,,which is pretty evident by the original post that the building is 95% empty.
Speaking solely about the Hopkinton properties…
My 2 cents —
- If Dell sells all the buildings they’ll have effectively vacated the Boston/Massachusetts market as a tech player. Would they want that?
- However, I’ve also heard conflicting things over the years about who exactly owns the buildings and land and it’s possible Dell doesn’t.
With Billy, Boudreau, Howard still around … closing Hopkinton I think would be met sorely.
@2xca+1fTSynsO If you are in management then you are part of the problem at Dell.
Thanks world wide manager. You speak loads of wisdom.
I'm in management, not HR. My team is worldwide, so returning to an office is moot. Maybe that puts my viewpoint in an isolated niche.
Yeah, so, yes they should. You could also work with your peers to ensure that everyone gets an even compromise and can work their best. If they treat you as an equal while you're not on site, that should fix most of it.
If you can't make it work with your peers or your manager, there are lots of jobs around, I've heard.
There is a lot of generalization on motives and such here, but don't assume negative intent, especially with someone just asking for actual answers.
Good luck.
Because most of my group went back and they wish to be in the office. It's mostly guilt for wanting to go back..but that is fading fast.
This guy again from HR.
The issue is we are being pushed back to the office by management.
Dell may be spouting the work anywhere narrative but this is not what the boots on the ground are being told.
The message from management is unofficially get back to the office or else.
We are told its hybrid at best case scenario and if we dont like it thats tough.
Maybe management should look at this thread and get the feeling from staff.
If you don't know exactly why the OP (original poster) went back to the office, don't guess.
I don't know why you are all even here. You all talk like you're speculating from the outside.
All messaging is "you can work from where you want to". I want to know why the guy that opened this thread went back to the office in Hopkinton.
He is giving useful feedback on the state of the environment and you're all jumping on like someone dragged him back kicking and screaming.
WHY did you go back?
GO back? Where in the era of Cloud, if you don't have to touch equipment there is no reason to sit in a office , cubicle. Dell should be ashamed!
Pushed in id say by management.Afraid to lose his/her/them job or be on the list of staff that have a brain.
OP, why did you go back then?
Hello I have been in the entire time through Covid-19. I don't think anyone needed to come back people are more productive at home. I think sales will go down with people hanging out in the caf eating over priced bad food. We did not have a caf or even utensils for two years didn't miss it. Stay home save money on gas on your latte and be more productive from your couch in your pajamas. We wish we didn't have to risk the health and safety of our families and ourselves pre vaccine. You had it good at home it was a very nerve racking experience to be in every day.
Dell is not a leader in anything other then giving each other high fives and posting on Linkdin about employee weekends and being a victim or some sad story or some irrelevant useless promotion with endless credentials which is still useless. There is no innovation other then comparing themselves to HPE.
what do you dell employees work on all day?
What does dell actually do?
I see this commercial contact your Dell IT advisors go ahead and give them a call. Trust me they'll take your business to the moon .
Agree with the above completely.Softly pushing back to the office will only cause staff to consider options elsewhere.Dell dont care about staff only stock price's.
They don't trust people and think we need to be watched.I find I work longer hours and more productive while working from home and have a better work life balance.They the return to the office won't in writing about going so they have no HR issues if anything goes wrong but managers will pressure us back.Hearing most office's are still dead everywhere.
Think job cuts are coming from what I can see.Maybe I'm wrong.
Dell monetized this: sold and rented buildings and reduced sqft for all employees.
You give up your cube; YOU provide the cost of an in-home office, then are slowly force people back in all the while promoting a 'shared' workstation which is the worst thing during a pandemic.
No one is forced to go into the office? Hahaha. You wait and see.