What we are witnessing in terms of layoff in Dell is not some major stab mega layoff. Right across August layoffs have happened across sites where 20 people here and 10 people there have been fired every other day. Just in the last three days there were 30 in Shanghai, 10 in Hopi and 15 in Bangalore impacted. These are teams I actually know. There might be many others impacted. The point here is there are no formal announcements before or after layoffs. These are all executed silently. Its pretty obvious it's going to continue across September. This is a new mode of sly layoff strategy from innovative Dell HR. Where you remove the redundant workers through multiple cuts. Basically it's going to be a continuous sustained small layoffs across and when finally if we take stock there will be huge reduction.
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If they go over a set amount in a set period then they have to report it in the/that region.
This has been going on since October 2015 in legacy EMC2, so it is nothing new, please get facts right before you post.
nah.. just normal menstruation cycle. Dell's period comes quarterly and the people inducing fear and paranoia here is the PMS. Another normal day for Dell.
With Dell, it's ALWAYS about image!!
Dell HR is mostly rubbish. The whole goddamn org is operated by a group of less than 10. The rest are dumbest people ever met.
A private company does not have to announce layoffs or how many. Thats why we havnt heard numbers except 2-3k from M.D which we all know will be more. That was just a toss up number to answer questions about layoffs to the press. A public company (ie: on the stock market) does if there is going to be more than 50... I think the slow layoffs are both to keep from bad publicity and also the upper brass is still trying to figure out where they can make cuts....
Large layoffs can trigger different laws that must be followed, i.e. the WARN act. By having continuing small targeted layoffs an employer can "fly under the radar" avoiding having to deal with bothersome rules and regulations that could cost them $ or garner bad publicity, or both.
End result is during any given quarter they can effectively cut the same number of employees as would a large single layoff while avoiding notice by government and media, a win/win for the corporation and a lose/lose for the employee.
It's pointless to speculate about market conditions and other economic factors . We should focus on the sweet little SMS that comes at the end of the month notifying salary credited to our accounts.
Dell can't wait for 4-5 years especially in a declining market trend in Storage. These cuts are going to happen much faster in an year for Micheal to even keep the numbers healthy.
In the last year or so Dell EMC is laying off roughly 500-600 people in diverse geographical locations every month. This makes for about 7,000 people per year. If the pace of the layoffs continues unabated for 4-5 years this will result in 35K people shaved off Dell EMC workforce which will restore the balance.
Do you even write code in BDC storage.
We just don't bother in BDC storage as we have storage CTO in our pocket. Our teams just spend time writing junk code for products we don't understand Jackshit about. We make merry and have fun. Our playbook has techniques to get our fat salaries without doing anything.
That is no way to live. Clearly, people at Dell should not put their success in the hands of the undeserving, spineless, "innovative" HR people.
This is nothing new or innovative. IBM did this many years ago.