Here's the latest cost cutting head counting scheme from DXC in the UK - "Modern Apprenticeships".
Basically, they take young folk who didn't have enough qualifications to go to University and place them in jobs from which qualified people have previously been made redundant. They do get a training program. Which is more than can be said of any other employee. So, in effect DXC are keeping their head count up by using this initiative but at the same time lowering their costs. (probably illegal in the UK!) However, these apprentices are being place into jobs which they do not have the knowledge or experience to execute at any professional level. I have no problem with the apprentices being employed , I mean they are just young folk looking for some experience, but the fact that DXC are just using them to bolster the employee head count is really kind of sickening. They, DXC, have had a had a history of using graduates for this purpose but it seems that the graduates are becoming too expensive also.
Not sure what DXC are trying to achieve. Do they now believe that studies, knowledge and experience are irrelevant? That they can make achievements into cutting edge technology by sending unskilled apprentices on half arsed training courses? The mind boggles!