Anyone else heard anything like this?
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Job rotation? that would be interesting, I work for a client in a team of 1 (14 sites spread across the country)
Not going to work. There ain't enough position in dxc.
Even in the military, only nco and above get job rotation.
This would require DXC to know what it needs from it's staff. And for DXC to implement a position based organisation. Then you can specify what skillset is required for each position. More easily identify who would fit with a bit of training. And can be very clear what the salary is for that job grade. Staff can be rotated and could choose to go after roles on either the same grade, or move up for more money. Obviously it's DXC, they won't do any of that and if your on a chair that's in a client who decides to end the contract you get to leave one way or another.
Nice idea, impossible to implement at any scale, especially with DXC's poor workforce management approach. I had a very successful career and my rule for moving to the next role or assignment was when I felt I had sunk to the bottom in my current role. What I mean by that is I'm just there doing a good job, management is complacent and happy that I'm doing a good job, they don't want to make any waves and just keep the status quo, but nobody is really looking out for me and I'm kind of stuck - no new skills, no promotion, no pay rise. It's easy but boring. Then I start looking around and find a place where they pull me in, and it's a growth opportunity in one way or another. I didn't always get a pay rise but at least I was appreciated and kept growing and forming close relationships with people who could help me in my career. I had more success than most of the people I had worked with at the start of my career.
When I said I wanted to get off this account and do something new, I was told I knew as well as anyone else where to find the resignation button in Workday.
Its just Quiet Firing / Demotion.
Six months for accounts at clients. Six months working out what to do. 12-18 months productive work.
They learnt this dramatically improves performance as shown at the exec level. Executive A comes in, from IBM for example, stays about 3 years and just exactly at that point they notice the performance drop, hence push them out the door and call it retirement. Since this has worked so successfully at that level, it is guaranteed to work with the plebs!
Is this so those people who move into a new role. Ace it without formal training or a certificate from claiming they justify as much money as those people who have said certificate from having any voice.
Obviously some head honchos try to apply military habits to DXC, where it is quite normal to rotate your job every 3 years.
We are well down that road already:
Special rituals and adaptation to specific hierarchies, compliance with rules, and expectation of your commander-in-chief to sacrifice oneself for the group are typical behaviors. Does it sounds familiar to you? :)
Not yet but my manager has suggested it as an option in my last two annual reviews so it appears to be a recognised policy. However, it was only a suggestion, and several people have done it, and not a requirement, but this being DXC there’s no accounting for common sense and what might work best for both the employee and the company.