Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

DXC India s—s ....just shutdown and sell it...waste of money

ML has become the new Evil Emperor in Star Wars (Palpatine?).

This thread is playing out exactly as was mentioned. The next round of WFR in bulk is around December 2018 - March 2019 just in time for a good Annual Report ans some earnings to show by way of savings.

One of the most toxic companys to work for in hope of a career.

You reap what you sow...

Speaking for DXC U.S.A. here.

This is what we get in U.S.A. for destroying the social system for the sole profit of big corps. Right-to-work laws, prohibition of unions, trading pensions for 401k, privatization of medical coverage and medicine... All those measures left employees with no retirement no medical coverage no affordable education and no job security... Lessons to learn for the future if ever a change is to be expected for seems to me this is the natural outcome of a wild unregulated capitalism that put owners profits over (and against) the people. But don't worry Mike and his friends get few millions more for every wave of layoff, so i guess all is fine at least for him, but then I heard it will trickle down...

99% of the backup staff can be reduced with help of platform team.

Backup team should open a ticket with platform team and keep it open till the issue is fixed. Moreover, the backup team should skill themselves to fix recirring issues of VSS errors by PROPERLY SKILLING THEMSELVES. Come with technical certification, not a certification in animal husbandry.

Backup staff is uneducated to the point that they lost touch of ITIL processes. 99% of the backup staff can be reduced with help of platform team.

he real stupid employees are in the "backup and storage" teams. No technology being used there, just right-click and re-run backup. that's something that can easily be automated "on-failure" but it's never done.

What a idiot, most 99% of backup failures are caused by OS issues, Windows VSS failures that are never fixed by the platform teams. If maybe the Platform teams would fix issues so they don't re-occur then the backup teams would have more time to work on real problems.

This thread is really true. In India, at least, the women employees have taken up employment to improve their chances of finding a husband. Nothing to do with technology.

The real stupid employees are in the "backup and storage" teams. No technology being used there, just right-click and re-run backup. that's something that can easily be automated "on-failure" but it's never done.

I’ve not heard anything about Nefkins.

Fire India staff coming from HPE

Nefkins got the chop very recently too. Now there is no hope!

This has been CSC's and now DXC's modus operandi all along. This really isn't anything new.

NIXON NAADAR, BAPPADITYA MAZUMDAR...

Great fire all of HPE staff and leave CDC’ people alone

Joined DXC (Erskine) in October 2017 - Made Redundant in January 2018....

Brought in to be trained as application packager, however, no formal training was provided by management. Learned how to application package and wrap by reading documents online - and by the kindness shown to me by my co-workers.

Shame on you HP / DXC or whatever name you want to hide your sham behind, if only we were allowed a union !!

who are Nadar, Bappa..GETC?...

Remove Nadar, Bappa and Palanaswami from GETC (Design) INDIA....

I have joined in the month of Jan 2017 and fired in november. If the company is not in a position to assure the job even for 1 year, what is the pointing in doing permanent recruitment. What a joke this company is !!!

We should banish Mikey and his gang to Siberia. That's your solution to your ongoing layoffs problem.

Not only I'm avoiding dxc, hp altogether but also I'm petitioning to the relevant authorities to isolate dxc offices out. Maybe I'll talk my local representative and law enforcement for a permanent curfew at dxc offices.

what about delivery managers WFR as promised by nefkins in a town hall long ago ? did he take a u turn ?

This thread says it all.. very interesting although quite a lengthy thread.

DXC has its very own strategy, but not sure what happens after this fiscal year, whats up the management's sleeve for the next year once their bonus is paid out ?

Then... Software professionals ... now... IT workers

As most of us would be aware that their is a employee union in India who is helping the layed off employees. Please get in touch with them (To speak & WhatsApp: +91 94874 85266 , +91 91766 69120, +91 9489004259) (http://fite.org.in/contact-us/).

Currently they are fighting for CTS & TCS employees.

https://qz.com/992725/from-tcs-to-infosys-cognizant-to-wipro-after-years-of-suffering-alone-docile-indian-techies-are-now-coming-together-to-fight-layoffs/

Non technical people have no place in a tech company. The company provides technical solutions using Information technology to help customer run their businesses. At DXC there are a lot of non-tech staff like table decorators, womens day celebrators, strip teasers and pole dancers keeping the upper management happy while getting paid a hefty salary doing nothing for customers or business.

GETC team, PORTAL and REPORTING team, EVENT AUTOMATION team are 4 redundant teams doing nothing, JUST SITTING AND PRETENDING TO BE WORKING.

The dates mentioned in the authors blog seems to be correct. My brother was told today (22nd May) about being made redundant at HPE office in Bangalore. He hadn’t even completed even one year in HPE and has been asked to leave. That too with just has an option of 2 months’ salary. He moved over from Pune and at the time, was provided relocation allowance, but while leaving he will be on his own.

It is scandal that in India companies are allowed to make people redundant at drop of a hat and companies don't take any responsibility. They shouldn’t have recruited people when the plan was to fire them within next 10-12 months. I'm sure these redundancies would have been in pipeline for more than a year but executed after the merger of HPW and CSC.

All the people who have been through this exercise should get together and fight for better severance pay.

Good Luck to all those who have suffered.

@MXAYQpJ-rwrx public sector is a nuttin but a gentlemens club with a bunch of overprivileged kiss a$$es. DXC is better off dumpin that low margin underperforming portfolio and offshoring all the non defence work.

Either it is a technical role or its not. Non technical roles are mostly process roles which are usually taken care of by a set of rules/tools eg ITIL processes of incident change problem availability, capacity management are all taken care of by the ticketing tool. There could be max 1 person doing the process role for all the ITIL processes.

Currently there are a huge number of non technical roles in DXC that are just an overhead including Service delivery managers.

@MXAYQpJ-qaia - some of Public Sector has always done well, but some of it has been run by completely incompetent executives who failed upwards (see NASA contract). I'm sure the C-Suite has hated that they can't replace staff with cheap offshore labor (Requires US Citizens with security clearances in US) and they face lawsuits from every sector due to failures to deliver on contracts. Public Sector is a hot mess they've wanted to spin off for a while, but HPE couldn't do it without violating SEC agreements. I guess the "spin-merger" allows them to finally try and do that.

DXC Technology is considering to spin off its public sector business. One analyst said it may take "at least six months before we see action on that if they chose to truly divest or spin it out.”

Not heard of the WFRs today in India likely due to additional workload that is urgently required caused by WannaCryp0 malware released over weekend

What they need to do is rightsize the l5 and middle management instead of the worker bees and delivery. Organisation remains top heavy with political fearmongers.

Read carefully:

'IT sector to layoff up to 2 lakh engineers annually for next 3 years'

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/it-sector-to-layoff-up-to-2-lakh-engineers-annually-for-next-3-years-117051400487_1.html

Half of Indian IT staff to be irrelevant in 3 years: McKinsey

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/jobs-at-risk-half-of-indian-it-staff-to-be-irrelevant-in-3-years-mckinsey-117021700826_1.html

Why the the HPE ES part of DXC are named Entserv or EIT services, Will this be renamed?

Today, Town Hall meeting with Mike Lawrie, Chairman, President & CEO, DXC Technology. Mike will be addressing employees from the DXC facility in Noida, (India) with the other India sites joining virtually.

Last week they was distriuting some scrap in the India campus... All are china made junk that I can say.

The color code really match now. With a colorful HPE to a black and white DXC...

I persnally feel that occasional WFH is a good option due to various reason. Many company is opting for that now, some company gives 8 days in month as WFH. Not a bad option in city traffic. You are half excusted by the time you reach to office in sunny or a rainy day on the road itself. Company also saves many thing....

IF DXC is removing WFH option then they are just going back to black and white era...

NEWS for APAC region: On the call today it was disclosed that there will not be any more WFRs in following countries for 2017 till April 18

Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore as the staff is fully occupied and the costs are distributed sufficiently across teams and hierarchy

Australia, India, etc have special sessions/calls - so employee reductions are on the cards.

@MXAYQpJ-bcmy - Why the hate for people who work from home? I did that for 10 years and was quite productive - I built my home office around this, and provided all of that at my own expense. HPE (and EDS before that) never paid me a cent for maintaining the resources I had for my home office, including a VM server exclusively for my HPE development work.

The company I now work for has me commuting, a drive I hate (and consumes 2~3 hours a day along with all the other hassles), though luckily I love my job and I'll be able to expand my WFH time after I put in a year. I work with several WFH team members, and they are hard working people, very productive.

With HPE, yes, I had my suspicions about several team members that worked remote, but honestly, I had more problems with some team members who were in the office regularly... I would like to think my manager could see it as well, but he ignored it. My point, however, is that it was fairly easy to tell who was slacking and it would have been simple enough to monitor and coach - or simply let go - those team members. The fault wasn't in the system, it was in the people.

Getting rid of WFH isn't going to make a slacker more productive - it just makes everybody more miserable, even the productive team members.

Restructuring might be good for the company, but NOT for the employee who is working for a small salary. For the employee, it is a better to look out for employment elsewhere before DXC surprises you with a WFR letter.

The reason why Middle Management is not good in India - all these managers are not professional managers and they have not acquired any management skills in their career. They got these positions just because they are with the company for long or they have some god father in the company.