Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

@1b2 Right but because they can't be outsourced that leaves a smaller group of candidates, which have to be in the US and be citizens. Dell can't cheap out on fed employees and hire Indians for a quarter of what a US employee salary is. Doesn't mean you can't be laid off but just makes the pool smaller I suppose?

@12t In that case, I will support "Big Government" from now on, big enough to hire everyone in states, given the only reliable excuse/justification is you can't outsource Fed jobs. Nothing else can save you.

I'd say historically bulk layoffs are finished by March 1st.

The lists have already been made, finalized, run through legal and HR and in all honesty there is NOTHING you can do about it at this point so, just collect your paychecks and hope for the best - assuming you don't want to be laid off anyways.

No sense in worrying about it as you are either on the list, or you aren't.

idk but for the 6 years I've been here, it's clockwork... February and September for the "big" layoffs, then trickles in between. I feel fairly safe - though always get stressed every February and September - as I'm in FED and there are only 1657 people in all of FED.

I am NOT IN SALES FTR.... I'm in a technical department, but won't say which as we are small and I'm not about to oust myself lol.

• Each team is TINY compared to CORP teams - most teams in FED are between 2 and 12 people. My "team" is 12 but my "sub team" is 4. The other 8 people do different things than we do but each of those "sub teams" is literally 2 people each.

• NOBODY in FED can be offshored- this is literally a government policy, not a Dell policy.

• Every single person must be a verified US citizen with a clean background
• We can't be replaced by India - or any country for that matter
• it's more expensive to "vet" fed employees as deeper and more thourough BG checks are needed.
• MUST live IN the USA - as in your primary home address is in the US.

And now that all future roles are required to be local to a Dell office and no remote employees will be hired anymore, that leaves very little options for hires as it's obvious Dell wants employees to live local to a MAIN office - not satellite offices... as they are and have been slowly closing those down - so essentially, that's only a few states for viable candidates and even fewer viable cities. So for FED, that'd be RR, Hopkinton and OKC - The former two being the FED "tech" hubs for Dell, anyways.

For my specific job/position, future hires would have to live within an hour of either RR offices or Hopkinton offices to be hired on for a FED tech position. And by "tech" i do not mean tech support. I do not fall under the IT umbrella/org. I'd say what ORG I am under but again, we are far too small in FED and I'd oust myself.

Corp has a TON of hubs and options in the US and worldwide, though.

Move back to india

I know a few people laid off the first week of December.

Basically if your team is coming even close to meeting it's goals/obligations, then it's due for a 20% headcount reduction. This trend will continue quarterly until something catastrophic happens. At that point Dell will use the catastrophe as justification for terminating whoever's left.

Last year the big cuts were in early April of if I recall. But it seems like they are just doing it weekly now.

@ab

I've already seen it first hand. Layoff two people in the US. After the dust settles, you now have two people that have back filled the two layoffs from India.

Great for people in India. Bad for the US. It isn't going to stop.

All I can say is, plan accordingly.

@a5 - Really???

Dell layoff cadence is predictable. HR meeting invite for the 26th with last day 30th, for new fiscal year starting Feb 2.

10-25% layoffs for all teams, all geos except for APJ. Dell will hire another 6,000 Indians to pretend to take up the slack.

the hammer is about to fall. Stay tuned.