Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Are they really going to cut 10K people in the next two months?

It wouldn't be a shocker, though. I just want to know if there's an actual strategy guiding all of this, or if they're still just fumbling in the dark. Either way, I hope they release me from my misery this time around.


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Post ID: @OP+1kg785y3v

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If this were true, who is going to do the work?

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Post ID: @nb+1kg785y3v

No

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Post ID: @kf+1kg785y3v

As much as possible. Enjoy the ride!

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Post ID: @gy+1kg785y3v

@a7 good to know it’s not being used to pay people to stay home in their pajamas and claim they are working

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Post ID: @g3+1kg785y3v

The “strategy” is the same as it’s been for the last two years: keep the stock price inflated by cutting personnel costs to hide the lack of business growth.

This is a bucket you can only empty so many times though.

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Post ID: @fc+1kg785y3v

Yes. With knives.

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Post ID: @dn+1kg785y3v

Probably more if they can.

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Post ID: @c1+1kg785y3v

A guiding principle for Dell is that most employee labor is either non-value-added or replaceable by an automated tool. If something is value-added and will negatively affect customer-experience, Dell is betting that competitors are also cutting and making similar changes so bad changes aren't a share loss risk.

Dell also trumpets "do less with less". Cutting employees performing valuable work is no big deal because the remaining employees will stretch to absorb the most important parts while the lower value work will naturally fall out of stressed employee's workloads. It's a really cynical spin on business process improvement.

Bottom line: the only coherent strategy is to get rid of employees, and any action that accomplishes this is on the table.

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Post ID: @aq+1kg785y3v

Repeating another post. More navel gazing. Bollocks.

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Post ID: @aa+1kg785y3v

All the money went to Trump baby accounts.

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Post ID: @a7+1kg785y3v

and we would know how exactly???? d-mb question, you're getting speculation at this point which means nothing.

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