Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Until I joined DXC 4 years ago, I've never seen so many people on so many calls saying so little. That says these people are just turning up and doing very little. I am now part of Drumgoole's group. He has assembled his leadership team made up of the biggest weirdos and losers in the industry. There one guy who calls himself Chief of Staff, he just talks. Does nothing but talk and make promises and delivers sweet f.a. Another "sales leader" has never had a sales leadership role in his long careeer, ever. Another "sales leader" talks like someone in a horror movie. This company could cut 30% of management and they would not be missed for one minute. Fingers crossed and hopeful for something decent to happen.

Very funny.

• Still some here in the forum believe in pay increase or bonus
• Some others think the board is handling DXC like an IT company and not like an asset to sell
• A few think there is still hope for DXC

Replace the whole board with people who know how to run an IT company !

Reading all the comments below it seems like selling out DXC is the only solution. New CEO will simply put their new ideas in the form of new logo, new offerings, reorganisation.

If the company is sold out its easy to find out who is needed (the folks doing actual work for clients) and those who just push papers.

Hope the now all powerful board is reading these and taking note.

 @2oea+1qjCvuAl Yes there are too many managers in GIS, surprised this hasn't been fixed by now.

As others have also mentioned they are falling over each other, holding meetings about meetings and several of them attending when 1 is sufficient.

They build tower environments within thier groups and would rather see things fail than someone do work which crosses thier little empire. "My employee won't do that work, it belongs to your line, we Don care if it fails and there's nobody to do it."

They like to stop any work bieng done, then record anything small of significance and make a big deal of it.

It's all about image and talk rather than allowing work to be completed and customers to be satisfied.

Removing the layers will help fix GIS.

Reading these comments it's clear why GIS is dragging the rest of DXC down, the sooner we are shot of them the better.
Over in apps delivery, there is none of this manager overhead, or pointless meetings, it's all hands on deck to meet impossible deadlines, instead we get projects ignoring risks of burnout due to the cycle of big push but with no respite, just the next big push.

Every week I have a meeting with 4 sometimes 5 managers to discuss the high/critical patches. Why ?
I don't need handholding to impliment what's required. I know what needs doing and when it can be done, I don't need 5 managers telling me how to do my job !

Projects should be run by technical leads, not PM's who have no clue what you're talking about. Staff should be able to order and provision whatever they need to do the job. But that information should be made public, and when people take the **** they should be let go. But a £1000 on a fancy laptop, and £100 or trip to see the client and get the real requirements is small fry in comparison to useless PM's billing 80% of their week for months on end to a project because they've got nothing else to do.

We've become a company where management have tied up processes so that things only get done (and then very slowly) when those same managers escalate. Job creation if you ask me! We need to trust the people who do the work, give them the access and equipment, and reward to do the task and continually improve. Explain to us how to get a pay rise, and actually give us one! I have no idea how our client should ask us for work, so it's either some major project with 50% project management overhead, which we can never win the bid on, or we're doing things as a favour because it's only a few hours work.

Yo middle manager. What is it that you guys do? Writing fpr(cut and paste). Zero tech knowledge. We must have at least 10k of them. Then comes the agile freaking sc-m masters or whatever the duck they call them. Another 15k of the them. Don't get me wrong, there are excellent PM's who do a commendable job in delivery and clients love them but for every one of them, we have 10x useless pmo people.

Does the OP really expect anyone outside of the board to know what has really gone on. We will never hear that, it's a secret in a publicly traded company.

The next thing everyone will hear will be the new guy telling us whatever fantasy he's dreamed up. Followed probably by who's getting sold off and who's getting laid off.

Just don't need managers on top of managers, they are falling over each other.

There are so many layers and they are so wide that its difficult to keep track of them. I'm sure a lot of them would be happy to take the money and go rather than inventing fake tasks to look like they are busy.

Get yourself a good people manager, they are worth their weight in gold.

Plus don't know which bit of DXC or what account you work on but I have no account management, just lots of people muddling through with whatever agile title the project has decided to give them.

People managers are a joke. Having to justify your work to someone who has no clue what you do and does not communicate with your account is insane.

Get rid of all the people managers and have employees report to their functional managers , that will save a bundle.

Get rid of CAB meetings as it’s a waste of time to sit on a call with hundreds of others to get a simple change approved. Most change managers don’t have a clue what you’re changing anyway and how it affects other aspects of technology!

Get rid of Dell contractors and have DXC people do the job as Dell justs delay’s everything!

 @OP+1qjCvuAl your spot on, assuming a middle manager costs $100k including thier 401 and other costs, getting rid of 10 managers would save $1million.

I've never worked in a company where alot of the managers are so incompetent. Just turning up and actually stopping workflow.

Realistically 300 managers could be gone and it would actually improve workflow, customer satisfaction, and delivery.

Thats $30 million profit on the bottom line, and a $3 rise in share price.

Remove the Salvino cronies saving another $20million and the share price is at $28.

Who said its hard to turn this around? If they can't turn this in 9 months they aren't good enough for the job and they are just going to be raiding it like the Sally gang.