Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

Nerve Center Status

Now that all essential IT now performed in Webster will move to to the Cary (Raleigh) Nerve Center, I wonder when we will see actions related to the other two nerve centers quietly announced by Shanker in 2019 or was it 2018?

Will anything business related actually occur in London? When will migration to Kochi occur, or will that follow the Webster model of only moving managers needed for transition with everyone else considered to have voluntarily resigned?

While Shanker parties in Palo trying desperately to land a job at a respectable company one has to wonder: will the nerve centers survive him? There are plenty of reasons to question the concept, most have been covered in this forum.

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To -viu: depends on what you mean by “supported”. Wipro provides a number of services but needs to be watched over, not only for quality and performance to agreement, but to prevent bad decisions being made such as “we can perform these other functions too” which are only meant to grow their business and make exit more difficult. Bean counters need to be given some factors before deciding to allow the lunatics to run the asylum, so to speak. These functions all happen in Webster today.

Additionally, outsourced providers don’t do many things, some because of contract and others because work avoidance is baked into the model. There needs to be a layer to force timely resolution and to recognize performance issues and resolve them. This service delivery layer was part of the Webster function.

Also, many functions cannot be trusted fully to external providers, if at all due to conflict of interest (provider revenue), strategic nature, etc. Webster has that role.

Design of IT solutions has also been a Webster function.

My recruiter contacts tell me Xerox has asked for bids on sourcing 600 people in Cary, a combination of IT and other back office Webster ops. Finance was mentioned. But that was just the RFP. You cannot assume the carrot numbers given to NC politicians about number of jobs and salary levels are anywhere close to reality. Eventually NC will notice this discrepancy.

“Servers and stuff” will require limited local support as long as they exist in Webster, and according on other threads on this site it appears the data center exit isn’t going to happen anytime soon if at all. But you would be surprised how little manpower that takes even for a BLDG 300 size operation.

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Post ID: @sdq+12AYM9zC

Isnt all IT supported by Wipro in India now? What is left in Webster? Is it just servers and stuff we are talking about?
How many jobs will be in Cary?

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Post ID: @viu+12AYM9zC

Cary:

  • will not replace all jobs not moving there
  • is a construct to have staff exit “voluntarily”
  • will not perform IT but manage providers who do
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Post ID: @hfl+12AYM9zC

How is IT moving to Cary if only a few are being asked to move??

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Post ID: @rdo+12AYM9zC

Ooh that’s a live wire to grab ahold of. Pure opinion, but informed by an XIM career:

  • Cary will have significant startup bumps in the road but no one is going to suggest moving IT oversight capability back to Webster. At that level such failures cannot be made public in such an obvious way.
  • Webster data center movement to the public cloud shows zero progress to meeting the CIO commitment of outta there by 2020. There is zero talk about this failure to execute and the initiative may disappear in the same way that the initiative was never really publicized, promoted, or managed.
  • London is a red herring.
  • Kochi will be interesting for a variety of reasons but without cultural awareness training I risk offending entire regions without balance. I would caution Non-Kochi individuals in India supporting Xerox to consider that the Webster model will next be applied to them. That is:

—- only certain people get asked to move
—- those not moving (they can apply for their jobs T a reduced rate) are conferees to have resigned
— those who move will be at severe risk after stabilization occurs and cost-reduction efforts resume

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