Wholesale layoffs. Good people are being let go. The only criteria that I can see applied is that if you are experienced and skilled, therefore more expensive than the others, you are more likely to be booted. Which, as a rule, means that they are letting teams’ backbone go, colleagues we all really need to have anything properly done. The whole setup is just for shareholders and the top. It’s all actually disgusting.
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@rgf+1uNDHXHp your comment regarding the following is not accurate... "the “Coworkers” impacted by this and previous rounds have all added little to no value back to the company and our customers and it was time for them to go."
I was laid-off after delivering each and ever way possible. In July my manager began giving me double the amount of work. Every week there was a change and direction. Scheduled meetings just left on the calendar without that manager attending. I was bullied for two months and provided incorrect information.
There is outdated documentation everywhere and no ones seems to care. I updated documentation only to be reprimanded.
The clue for everyone was the announcement of lagging profits along with the change in PTO and the forced burned-down. There is also cost cutting of software implementations.
Hopefully @rgf+1uNDHXHp, you will never go through what some of have experienced.
The Sirius acquisition continues to prove itself as having bern a bad move. The old CDW culture which drove success has regretfully been impacted.
"In my experience, the “Coworkers” impacted by this and previous rounds have all added little to no value back to the company and our customers and it was time for them to go."
You have no idea what you are talking about. CDW lost an incredible amount of skill, expertise and experience from layoffs over the last two years. And over that time, even with all these layoffs, CDW still has not been able to hit revenue expectations. Maybe the wrong people were let go?
“There used to be a sense of urgency in everything we did at CDW. Unfortunately, we have gotten away from that in recent years and we no longer quickly and efficiently take care of our customers, like we used to that got us to become the powerhouse we were.”
Sure but blame executives for the sh*tshow with the acquisitions and long timelines for the platform tool integration (Salesforce). I knew of Sirius folks a year after acquisition lost in the shuffle not sure where to go. Sirius had a more loose entrepreneurial model than CDW for things like Sales alignment, etc, versus CDW’s more structured model. The people, process, platform integration was hugely disruptive.
Is the C suite a sh-tshow that needs to be held accountable for their actions or lack thereof?
No doubt
However, the Coworkers let go today being “good people” aside, these layoffs absolutely needed to happen.
In my experience, the “Coworkers” impacted by this and previous rounds have all added little to no value back to the company and our customers and it was time for them to go. Emails that go unanswered, little to no real work being done and no one holding th accountable for lack of production as we’re “too afraid” to tell Coworkers directly that they’re doing a sh---y job or worse, not fire them throughout the year for poor performance because we’re afraid of being sued. Instead, we hide behind these layoffs as a way to let people go they should have been fired long ago
There used to be a sense of urgency in everything we did at CDW. Unfortunately, we have gotten away from that in recent years and we no longer quickly and efficiently take care of our customers, like we used to that got us to become the powerhouse we were. Today, everything needs an “approval”, endless system or process workflows instead of ENABLING our Coworkers to make the right business decision.
Until we bring back urgency and enable our coworkers to do their jobs quickly and efficiently by eliminating the never ending “operation” issues, we’re going to continue to sink like the Titanic in the North Atlantic
"You should ask yourself...for every decision you make, is this good for the company? Am I helping with the company's strategic vision?"
They should layoff the DEI department
Anybody have a gauge on how many people were let go? I bet if they fired the entire C-suite, they'd save money....f*cking as$clowns.
You expect anything less? This company has been a clown show for a few years now.
Hopefully they let those "coworkers" go that still have autosigs on from their pre-acquisition companies. They don't think they work for CDW anyway yet.
Nothing like leadership running this place into the ground with poor decisions and it's the common folk that pay the price. When do they have to have accountability? Look at our competitors, are they echoing the same decline as our brilliant leader? That's all you need to know as to the root of the problem.
At a time like this you need to not worry about yourself and just think of the shareholders!! :-S