Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Current tech is not much more than 5 years old.

30 is the new retiree 65

5yfd ... I can only speak for US. Read your employee agreement. You may have given up your rights for class actions suits. https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2018/06/06/victory-for-employers-arbitration-clauses-can-prevent-class-action-employment-suits/ How wonderful for DXC and the overtime lawsuits that CSC and HP has a history of losing. Yes, you are right. The chance of winning as an individual is close to nil.

New employees bring new employee agreements, lower salaries, lower healthcare etc. You are an employee at will. To win an age discrimination suit as an individual you must prove that your salary is the same as another's but you were fired due to your age. This is why it is impossible to win.

"File Age Discrimination suit if you lose job because of age" DXC has legal people on retainer, unless it's a class action suit a single person wouldn't have a chance and that is what they are counting on.

If the aim is to get rid of people older than 35 then when is Mikey on the list? About time that he got the chop.

A walk though a DXC project room is still like being in "Ceders High Retirement Villa" or "Night ot the living dead".

long overdue to get rid of anyone over 35.

As I keep saying, its just a corporate trend - its not Mikey thinking of something new.

If other companies haven't cottoned on yet, its because they are behind the curve in adopting "new ideas".

It will come.... Its very simple, maximise profit by squeezing your expensive work force.

We are facing the race to the bottom, caused by globalisation, ironically enabled by the very technology many of us have actually rolled out in the last 30 years, combined with grinding down workers rights and benefits.

Zero hours contracts, "unlimited holiday", keeping staff turnover high to eliminate redundancy payout risk, "self employed", no paid sick leave...

Look around, its increasingly situation normal across the world.

The great white hope is that AI will eliminate the need for "skilled" workers completely. Then you just need cheap pairs of hands... at minimum wage.

Even in CSC I met some very helpful and supportive leaders. You can tell the difference when someone is able to inspire you to do better, makes you leave a meeting feeling better than you went in and who wants the team to succeed rather than feather their own nest.

I remember there were only few of that rare bread of leaders who were approachable, supportive and would give you valuable advice. In the latter years of DXC, most of those inspirational folk had left, leaving behind the arrogant id--ts with their head up their a$$ who just wanted to cover their backs, blame their staff and feather their own nests. But I guess its just a product of that toxic environment. I wouldn't expect anything less now, to be honest.

I now work with lots of clients and have met some really inspirational managing directors in the cloud service industry who have an exciting and fun outlook and joke with their engineers and inspire a sense of fun and team spirit that opened my eyes. Lots of social events are organised and they engender almost a family atmosphere. Their client base grows exponentially and they have real innovative ideas that they turn into offerings almost overnight and work with clients each day to say: "What if we could do this, would you be interested?". None of that DXC taking months on end to get dozens of approvals and countless business cases for even the mere hint of an idea, like an old dying dinosaur.

These cloud businesses are hungry and know how the way to succeed to is attract and retain both young people who are passionate about learning but also ensure they have the experienced, battle worn guys on hand for winning new work, but also to mentor and drive the new grads into senior positions.

You can see the whole culture of an organisation take on the same excitement and enthusiasm of its leaders. When I look at DXC, I just see an old tired, repressive and shrinking company of robots that is expensive and bureaurocratic where no-one has any power to make a decision and just looks forward to the next round of reductions.

Experience counts. Funnily enough that used to be a CSC's strapline back in the day when their culture and brand believed in such things.