Too many reviews that accomplish exactly nothing

Am I the only one who feels we have too many reviews in Dell? Weekly reviews, monthly reviews, adhoc reviews, quarterly reviews....we seem to review more than actually do the work that can be reviewed.

I get the feeling that too many SVPs and VPs schedule reviews because they want something to fill up they're time with when in reality they are completely clueless about what to do. Not to mention that those who have been in Dell for a long time have developed an allergy to actually doing any real work or taking decisions. they keep reviewing the same sh---y dashboards and metrics and asking the same inane questions in every review.

i Cannot recall the last time a VP or above even facilitated idea generation and discussion, much less provide fresh ideas by themselves. At best, they drop gems like "we should sell more to meet our numbers. we need to discount less to get the margin up"... SMH. Whatever else may change in 2026, i know this review nonsense will only continue.

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I was a manager in the Enterprise group. It’s what they do to justify their existence. Eventually, most of the workers will be replaced by AI and or robots eliminating as much overhead as possible. No employees means no benefit costs. Shareholders don’t like expenses, employees are an expense. All that really matters is the bottom line and the profits.

100% true. It's death. Happy I got out.

The reviews are pointless.

People need to justify their jobs. They have been thinking for many decades that we need to measure people's performance. I get it. But, they'll come up with metrics they think are new but are being recycled over and over again. On top of that, most of the time there is no relevance to the metrics.

AI will start to take that away from a manager. You are seeing it now. Managers managing 20 plus people. Before you know it, it'll be a Manager with an AI Bot managing 40 people.

You may think there is no reasoning behind what they are doing. You think that because you don't know the endgame.

they do this in order to prove why their job is required.

You are not alone. With millions spent on off sites. That is terrible mgmt.

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