Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

In the last 6 months the DXC Field Services organisation in Australia has handed out WFRs to several of their personnel based purely on age and ignored the great experience gained over the years. This shows that Mikey discriminates against older workers and just does not care about the implications, which are a problem for Delivery teams to manage.

FDS (Field Delivery Services) also owned by DXC, we’ve been told that we’re not affected by the recent uk redundancy announcement, does anyone know if they’ve ever done a redundancy for FDS?

I would remind my manager but don't even know who he is, just got a name but never met him as he is based somewhere else, people can express an interest up until the 11th June, but on the emai it says they will start letting people know from the 03rd june

@ZilpApz-6ykz It varies considerably. If no one objects or you're not so expensive that Mike Lawrie has to sign off the cost of dispensing with you, it might be mere days... or it might be weeks. My advice is to keep reminding your manager and your manager's manager that you've applied, you're ready to go and will do so immediately on approval if required.

Best of luck.

I have put in for voluntary redundancy, how long is it normally until they notify you whether they will give you it?

@ZilpApz-6pdk it would be interesting to try a case... but I suspect that you'd have to prove a direct relationship between age and skillset. What DXC (and others) do is to mix up factors to hide the fact.

Firstly, move the role's location so automatically the current employees have to go (legal).

Secondly, rehire simply by advertising the role at a much lower salary (legal)

Lower salary = less experienced people will apply.

Less experienced = probably younger

You then can justify your choice of younger people as a better organisational fit on an individual personal basis, to weed out the oldies who still might apply.

Its not ageism directly.... but it could be inferred, but not illegal.... and thats how they roll.

Interesting aspect of UK redundancies. There is a deliberate ploy here to get rid of the aged staff who are in general paid more than younger recruits. Just over a year ago DXC froze the pensions hitting older staff. So they had no incentive to stay. Many have stayed, waiting for the check. However it begs the question of legality of what they are doing. It needs someone to challenge in an industrial tribunal.After all, having a technology degree, being skilled in multiple programming languages, delivered 'digital platforms' for years, client experience - yet to be targeted for redundancy and the only difference is Age and Salary compared to a 22 year old recruit. Extract taken from UK Redundancy policy I was sent:

"In carrying out any redundancy exercise we will not discriminate directly or indirectly on grounds of gender, s-xual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Part-time employees and those working under fixed-term contracts will not be treated differently to permanent, full-time comparators. "

Due to the fact that older people are on higher salaries, then this is a fair case here for Age discrimination under UK law.

Has anyone ever been let go through voluntary redundancy or is it just a procedure they have to go through to compulsory redundancy?

Leadership couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery. What an absolute shame for all the people affected by this news. What’s going on is immoral, masses of staff laid off, customers ripped off, and it seems never ending.

Good luck to everyone affected.

Where does the 30% figure come from?

Thirty percent? Wtf.

So the figure I'd heard rumoured of 8000 from the USA is not impossible to believe either...

30 percent is a high number, we all got the email for enhanced expression of wish redundancy and it was quite a shock to even the management of my area, I have applied for it, what's the chance that it gets rejected?

Well it's official, UK & Ireland WFR target this time is 30%.

How the business can survive after that I just don't know.

Reply to: @ZilpApz-1ajr - yes they often do that within this company WFR experienced people and possibly older, on higher wage and then often recruit new people / positions - graduates, less experienced people on lower wage instead of possibly cross training existing staff in the new advertised positions.

There are all sorts of rumours, but the most believable I've heard is 1000-2000 in the UK.

like the last poster it says you can't appeal, does anyone have any ideal how many positions they are getting rid of?

Great news, fingers crossed for acceptance, they say you can't appeal a negative though.

they're recruiting in Chesterfield tho...

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1242302374/

A rejected VR is because your line manager and theirs can’t be bothered to figure out an alternate solution. But Any appeal will set Mikey’s HR dogs onto them to force a release. So yes any appeal will work. HR = Hurry & Reduce.

Word is if you apply for vr and get turned down, appeal and it's 99.9% guaranteed that you will get it.

It’s now open season .... And the culling begins

I heard the name so many times in the UK that I thought ‘With Regret’ was the name of the DXC UK COO.

Interesting and possibly bit dangerous to get rid off good experience and aged personnel (maybe illegal, e.g., ageism and if it is violation of Equality Law Act 2010 (UK) ?).

Ether offshore their roles, cut their roles complete (lost of customer/s) or bring less experienced graduates / starters to do their roles for less salary but same amount of work load and possibly not having the support / experience / knowledge transfer to do the job.

This company seems more and more as an asset strip outfit and almost guarantee (ever since CSC days) that WFR happens in UK (and USA) at least every year - with potentially the bright sparks jumping ship or retiring

"anyone who has been identified as being in scope for TUPE transfer out of DXC" interesting what accounts are leaving then ?

Another Misys crony

Glad I'm long gone from that debacle.. What a fiasco of vast proportions. With the share price just above the 50 buck mark, why ML has a job I do not know... hope the poor sods losing their jobs move onto happy times. They are the ones I feel for.

What a disgrace this company is and the memo they put out is just full of sh1t. Bionix is a load of rubbish and hiding behind automation as the reason for a WFR is cowardly. Let me explain what’s really happened . The numbers, however ML portrayed them, are awful. We are losing contracts and not replacing them with digital or legacy! The company is going down the toilet. Cutting costs in the wrong place. They should get rid of the second level of management on the sales side. Their base salaries are incredibly high and that’s before they get any bonuses... and all they do is sit on conference calls manipulating spreadsheets to show how well they are doing. Its an embarrassment to have this organisation on my CV

Our UK business is clearly struggling. The numbers were worse than expected and golden boy Maruf is in the crosshairs already! It was interesting that Lawrie and Saleh didn't offer any region by region split last week on the earnings call. I did hear Lawrie mention the UK in passing on the call, but in a negative way. I also wonder whether it's a coincidence that our 10k has not been filed? (Perhaps so no-one can read the gory details until the dust has settled)!