New direction from the gestapo seems to be that the last perk we had is no longer available. Can't wait to see all those hard working people slow down to a 9-5 in the buildings.
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Some people in DXC are taking an attitude of Fock DXC and ignoring the anti-family and anti-fairness regime pushed by ML and his HR typist GF.
Working at DXC in ANZ is now a crime. There are so many disgruntled and dejected employees who have just had enough, but are hanging out for a WFR. Let's hope that DXC loses some clients in ANZ and then the employees will have a real cause to celebrate leaving DXC. Several clients are very p!ssed off with DXC - I wonder which ones they are?
UK several years back CSC shut offices and helped the people WfH - desks, BB etc. supplied
Then came co-locate model, people who couldnt get to a co-loc site got canned - some happy some not
.... just sayin'
I started with CSC in 2008 and it soon went to working from home because there wasn't any real office space at the site I was at. Sitting on folding chairs with folding tables in a unused section of a Data Center wasn't the most comfortable or easy to work with people elbow to elbow all on different phone calls.
https://zenbooth.net/blogs/zenbooth-blog/open-office-concept-failures-the-downsides-of-coworking
Working from home now a crime in ANZ, what do you mean. Its against company policy or a new law that went into effect by the government?
I work from home in the US and there is no DXC site close to me, so hope that doesn't happen here. Even if it doesn't I think my employment won't last.
It was that way when we were at CSC in 2015, nothing new. They want one big happy family.
I can still remember Mikey stood on the spiral stairs of something called an office building - remember those? He was asking the CSC proles gathered below: "What sort of company do you want it to become? It's your company: you decide."
I am pretty sure no-one put their hand up and said: "I'd like it to become a sweat shop where we exploit cheap labour over experience and skills; where we flog AWS and AZURE products for little value-add and re-structure our 15 levels into 7 levels of management led by a gestapo-like regime who stips all the wealth from the proles to line their own pockets in times when they fail to hit revenue targets; where we kick long-term clients in the teeth and make them wait for days for updates from halfways across the word; where we remove all rewards and incentives from loyal staff; take out every drop of cost; devolve strict company-sided policies to HR drones; regularly inform the staff of how worthless they are and be prepared to expand a work force reduction programme from its current ad-hoc painful erratic 'one-offs' into a more consistent, drawn-out painful practice of regular, quarterly culls of any remaining high-value skills until the year 2020 whereupon we will review who amongst the 50 of us needs to remain."
I think I would have remembered someone saying that.
Yes, co-locate or die. Any remote workers are being culled too.
As for slowing down... you can almost die in the rush for the door at 1730hrs in the UK.
At 1745hrs I was the only one left in the car park the other day (I was only late because I was finishing job applications on a website)
Mikey doesn't appreciate how much the extra mile is needed to make an IT business work and quite honestly, nobody is exceeding contractual requirements any more. I know plenty who are refusing weekend working or any other favour needed.