Any info where the next wave of layoffs might hit, or should employees in every country where DXC has its presence be ready for layoffs? Guess my question is, is there any planned strategy for layoffs based on the location of the offices, or does than not matter?
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Australia is next 20% of the workforce to be WFRd by August. Especially those working from home and on working Visas are being targeted also the older generation aka dead wood.
UKI is now - received the WFR mail yesterday
DXC notoriously under compensates people. It’s widely seen as a chop shop.
My group had a round of layoffs last week in the AMS and we were told to expect another round within the next two weeks. Based off who was let go I think there were a few people making under $77k.
IF you only earn $77,000 in the US your sorely under paid or very new to the field . I was making more than that in 2007 LOL.
Someone I know was WFR’d this month and the boss told them they are targeting people at 100k plus. But every group uses different criteria.
I guess then I am in the cross hairs , but so far I haven't been replaced . By the way I live on the east coast of the USA part of the time and the west coast the other.
I guess it depends where you are in the world. Here in the UK, $77k is a reasonable wage for a techie, even one with a decent number of years experience. Some earn a bit more, but realistically you are talking management roles above that figure.
If wherever you are "earning that back in 1990" then that is why wherever you are is subject to savage WFR and your role moved somewhere cheaper - even if that is somewhere lower cost within your own country. Certainly here in the UK the difference between a London/South East salary and one in the North East is night and day.
The major UK banks are busy relocating their IT functions out of London to Glasgow and Edinburgh at the moment to reduce their costs - so its not just DXC playing the cost cutting game.
If you don’t earn more than $77,000 you to new to know anything. I was making more than that back in 1990
If you earn more than $77,000 and senior management then you are in the crosshairs... either singularly or whole sites at a time.