Big news coming in February - widespread layoffs expected.
All areas of the business affected, with a heavy focus on sales. Brace for impact. The numbers are staggering.
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@cg 14k inexperienced mindless drone id--ts, who can't talk to customers without the customer thinking they're a fu--ing mo--n. Meanwhile the business lays off all the actual talent and tries to claim we didn't need that brainpower, we have AI to think for the fu-ktards. Great strategy, that's going to go so well!!
@gs Wouldn't surprise me in all honesty... I've heard nothing about this but I do know that (according to my director anyways) PTO days, medical leave, and medical exemptions are excluded from the 5 day policy. So if you take a PTO on a monday then you are expected to go on the other 4 days but, that Monday doesn't count against you.
They have laid off so many people in the last few years. They obviously have a way to go around the WARN act in the US. Every company would have a team of lawyers to deal with it.
In my area, they let go about 30% of staff at one go. Yet, you didn't have any public announcement.
@gv It is true that headcount reductions are typically implemented progressively throughout the year and then reported in aggregate in Q1 for the full year. Accordingly, if the last reported headcount was 108k, it is reasonable to assume the current figure is closer to 95k. These reductions are not executed in a single action but are phased over a 12-month period.
@dm
They have mastered the art of flying under the radar.
It's rumoured that people's bonuses are linked to office attendance? People have to explain days they were not in the office????
@a1 No it won't. For the last 6 years Dell has been on clock work to have their "big" layoffs every Aug and Feb., with smaller layoffs in between. If 90k employees it the goal then, that's almost 20k more employees to lay off as of now. Figure 7-10k employees combined just with Aug and Feb layoffs, then another 3k trickeld throughout the year.
The last thing Dell - or any company - wants is to be known as a company who je-ks off on laying people off lol
@dm Nobody said layoffs aren't coming, or aren't happening...
But because Dell is so massive and global - last I checked anyways, was around 108k employees globally... Problem is is that Dell never lays off enough people at a single site to ever trigger WARN.
From my brief understanding, for a company with 108k employees, 3300 would have to be laid off at ONE site for a trigger. Which will never happen
The WARN Act does require large employers to give 60 days notice only for certain types of mass layoffs or plant closings that meet specific size and percentage thresholds.
Not all layoffs trigger WARN though. Smaller reductions, staggered cuts, role eliminations spread across locations, or restructurings often fall outside the law. There are also exceptions that allow reduced or delayed notice.
WARN notices are usually filed with state agencies, not just a single federal list. So not seeing Dell on one site doesn’t prove anything unless every affected state has been checked.
Companies can also comply by offering pay in lieu of notice, which may never show up as a public WARN posting.
Bottom line: the absence of a WARN notice doesn’t mean layoffs aren’t happening it just means they may not meet the legal definition that requires public notice. So get with the program skippy!
@ct that big drop is the VMware spinoff, that was 20k employees
if it was a big as you claim the waren act would come into play... they would have to notify the GOV a few weeks in advance.... and it would then be listed on the gov site for upcoming layoffs.. currently there is nothing listed for dell...
@cg We have hired that many but, according to the 10K SEC report, Dell has gone down from 133000 in 2023 to 108000 in 2025.
To the people saying "trying to hit the low headcount goal" ...we have hired 14k new people in the last 2 years. Stop with your conspiracy troll theories already
@a1 they do this on purpose so they stay out of the news cycle.
Stop, stop! I can only get so er--t!
Following a comprehensive strategic workforce review, the company is preparing to implement a significant organizational realignment beginning in February.
All business units are currently under evaluation, with disproportionate impact anticipated across revenue-generating functions, including Sales.
Affected headcount is expected to reach into the thousands.
Additional guidance will be provided as leadership finalizes execution timelines. In the interim, employees are encouraged to remain focused, aligned, and resilient during this period of transformation.
Big layoff every Aug/Feb. Not a news.
Is that one of those where badges no longer work and you asked to turn in your laptop at the entrance?
Well thanks. Go spin up people with no facts to back things up. Layoffs are forever a fact of life now. But saying widespread and making it seem like 30k people will get chopped in Feb is just plain stupid. So please... get a life already.
Old news
Not to mention the cadence for large scale layoffs will switch from quarterly to monthly until we hit the obscenely low headcount goal.