I’ll go first, many employees feel Dell is saying one thing publicly and doing another internally.
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I’d say if you have a chance to move over to the federal department, do it. They seem to be pretty protected against layoffs
Dell has been doing layoffs for a very long time. Sometimes due to business downturns, sometimes essentially to rotate talent (stack rank and lay off the bottom X%). Always awful but tended to happen and then things would stabilize and get back to 'normal'.
As others have pointed out, layoffs seem continuous now. Terrible for morale. Maybe a way to drive attrition without paying severance? Maybe low eNPS is viewed as a positive in the board room?
@OP Agree, they say one thing publicly and differently internally.
They talk about AI publicly. AI is just less people doing more work internally.
Ugh... sorry to hear. Wish I knew what area of PS you were in, but understand that may reveal too much. I've heard of PS getting hit in a couple of areas this week, because you know... we haven't had enough layoffs already. Best of luck to you.
Was informed on Monday that this week marks the end of my tenure at Dell. I'm based in the U.S., working remotely in professional services. The slowdown in new programs—particularly complex sales—has left teams underutilized, and my high billing rate may have played a role. It's been difficult to determine the full scope of others affected, as communication has been minimal.
Also noticed that some of my comments on this platform don’t appear as expected.
They have been laying off since 2021. I requested to be laid off because I was due to retired but my manager chose someone else. This is a way to stay on top of what is happening.
Because most companies that have layoffs do it as a one and done. Be it in reaction to a specific event (downturn in business, sale of a divisition, acquisition of another compan) Dell is using it as a sort of ongoing process to keep employees on edge, thinking that and the RTO will force the weak to leave and the best will stay.
But in practice the best have left, some were laid off, and the only constant is mediocre managers who have no solid skills besides saying “yes boss, good idea boss” in several different languages.
It’s a way of relating to others who feel they have a target on their backs everyday.
Quality of work doesn’t matter. Value of your group doesn’t matter. With whom you golf… maybe, hard to say.
I had standing appts with a local therapists do discuss the constant anxiety- I had to find a new therapist after forced RTO.
@aj This. Layoffs have been happening since February 2023. Only the big ones make headlines, but as we all know there's this rolling wheel of layoffs that rotate from one org/team to another on a constant basis. This week it was devs in ISG, next week, who knows. It's all so hush hush, so we come here to find out who is being impacted and who may be next. That's the point of this site. If Dell ever stopped laying people off, and we had confidence in our job security, we'd likely stop coming here.
Because no one tells us the truth. We're hoping to dig through the lies and misdirection and trolls on rumor sites to find something, since no one with any authority will do so.
Dell layoffs seem to have been going on since Covid and have never stopped. In my opinion, this is the reason why it's been active. When it happens so often without any let up, people get concerned. You may not have been laid off but the resources that you once used are no longer there or the resources that replace them aren't worth it.
Dell has been doing quiet headcount reductions (via performance plans, reorgs, and territory shrinkage) without calling it a layoff.