Miley and Joe and the head up their a-- VPs have taken two very mediocre companies and created the Frankenstein of cluster f***s. Way to go you greedy brain farts!
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If you see or hear about layoffs, you should start looking for a different position outside of Dell. Its not worth the stress and aggravation of having to worry if you will have a job tomorrow, next month or even next quarter. Everyone at Dell has a "shelf-life" and eventually layoffs will happen.
@NtExep1-5zpm - You have no idea what your talking about. Hush.
Moving all functions to low cost regions is not feasible due to paucity of proper skilled resources. Sustaining an nth generation product does not need technical depth. Dell and EMC model has always been keep the core technology in the US and move the non key sustenance work to India and China. I don't see this model changing in any way
Cuts hit pretty big in Jan 2016 in Hop. Tucci did Dell a favor so he wouldnt look so bad. About 400 from 176 a lone. A couple thousand in the field world wide. They had to call in a fleet of taxis for people that car pooled to get them home at 176. Basically all buildings have been hit. Still more cuts in Hop/Maa ending of 16 and the beginning of 17. I still dont think its over for Hop as we were told. Cost of living in Mass people make more than in TX and taxes are higher in Mass. It will be re-assed quarter by quarter to determine how many more. This is comming from a high level VP. There will be def more and not overlapping jobs as stated. Ive seen many jobs already people lost that are not over lapping. Its cost cutting where ever they can. Mainly long term employees that make more money. They have to. Theres a lot of debt to pay off and its actually getting paid off quite fast. EMC is a cash cow. My guess is there will be approx 80k employees when they are finished. Multiple building will be shut down and the people surviving will be moving to Hop or Franklin. They already noted more people will be moved to Hop to fill desks of people that got laid off. More people to work remote which i wish I could do maybe twice a week but they dont let us unless there is a specific reason to. I think the worst will be over come the fall. Ive been in 15yrs and there has been layoffs one or twice a year. They are never over.Some bad some light but never over
Cuts happen daily Removing under preforming products or workers in high cost locations , keeping lower cost workers in low cost countries
All about saving money ......you would do the same if it was your business
vSAN what rubbish. You know next to nothing about storage or it's midrange.
Talks are around revving VMware VSAN. looks like its going to be a blood bath in mid range storage.
Portfolio rationalization exercise will have weird consequences. It is a clash of cultures with Dell holding on to what it does best which is no investment in new product lines. In storage focus is on further acquisitions around the HCI space.
Layoff targets are being fixed at VP levels. This is across all sites. Many jobs will also move to low cost India and China dell teams. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Cuts are coming. Fake news or not...reality is cuts are coming. Two huge companies combine into one. Too many redundunant jobs and overlap to think cuts are not going to happen. Management is stated integration will involve some cuts.
@NtExep1-4kjx - Most emc employees are way above your 30k base. Stop being stupid. Wake up.
@NtExep1-4ygm- How do you know about reduction targets at the VP level. Stop with your Fake News. You know nothing. You're just looking for a response. Stop with your drama and silliness. Go lay down.
$450,000,000 = $30,000 x 15,000. I would say 15K will be laid off within an year or so.
The cuts are coming. Last week reduction targets were provided at VP level across all groups. Dell has to shed a total of 450 million. The drama begins.
Actually, gorillas weigh between 400 and 500 pounds. Captive gorillas can reach up to 600 pounds, but that is considered obese. Just a note the phrase "800 pound gorilla" came out in the late 70's.
The T-Rex is extinct and the 800 pound gorilla is on the endangered list. Good luck.
No R&D for decades? Your the buffoon. Talk about "FAKE NEWS" you are it. I guess all those V3 K brands of flash storage that were released and spread out had nothing to do with R&D. And yes there is a new line in R&D being worked on. Thats just the storage line never mind all the other products. EMC is a cash cow. We are the T-Rex of dinosaurs, 800lb Gorilla that dominates the storage market Dont like the idea we were bought out but with EMC I think Dell will do just fine.
Layoffs coming in big way. Micky has a huge loan to payoff. Having acquired a white dinosaur in EMC with its storage market share plummeting downwards there is no option but to cut slack. Hopkinton grapevine is Micky doesn't trust EMC and Goulden. EMC storage had heated discussion with Micky last week.Micky wants revenues without any further investment. EMC wants more investment for new product lines. Micky doesn't believe in investing in intellectual capital he just wants returns to flow in by virtue of him buying company.
R&D are you serious? Dell and EMC have not invested in R&D in decades. What a baaafoon. All is good stop with the FAKE NEWS. Mergers and Aqusitions is where the money has been made.
Anyone who thinks the cuts are over hasn't been paying any attention to the performance of the new Dell/EMC venture or the tremendous debt load taken on. The interest payments alone eat most of the profit from the combined companies, leaving very little to invest in R&D.
July will be horrible.
Traditionally Dell has done layoffs at the beginning of the fiscal year starting in February and at the beginning of the second half which is August. After paring down the workforce this past January and February management is now in the process of looking at the results of those cuts on the bottom line and deciding how much deeper they need to cut to get to the desired revenue numbers.
If anyone thinks they're done cutting jobs then just wait and see how it all unfolds, there will be further cuts, it's just a matter of how big which is being decided now and will be implemented in July before the start of the second half of the fiscal year. By November if the numbers still don't look good it's guaranteed they'll be planning more cuts for January/February 2018.
Personally I'm quite happy to be in a new career and not having to deal with any of that BS anymore!
Sounds like your manager is the next one to get fired.
We had a meeting with the field cust srvc management today. The topic of layoffs came up and he stated all layoffs have been carried out. No more layoffs. All this speculation of layoffs at Dell Technologies is pure fake news. I have been with the company 2yrs strong now and have never been led astray by my managers word. Hang tight and keep up the good work.