How you treat your employees will determine the FATE of your company. If you treat employees as if they make a difference, they will make a difference. By mistreating one of your own, you lose the respect of others. So very simple.
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To @1mbu+15uktlX5. But you seem to be doing this at the expense of L5 - 8 being laid of in huge numbers. I'm one of those being made redundant. My client, to whom I am fully billable still hasn't been told I'm going. I can only imagine their reaction when I'm not there - it won't be good. Might even make them consider going elsewhere when at least 50% of their DXC team disappears overnight. Oh well, you can always make more people redundant to compensate for another drop in earnings.
Here's a thought for DXC (not that it will make any difference to me). Stop cutting people, and start showing value. Then, and this is the big one, get your charging model right. This is the heart of your problem. In your attempt to buy business by being the cheapest, your margins are too low. I joined a few years ago from a competitor, tempted by a 20% raise. Your day rate for me to each client is just around 55% of what my previous employer charged. This is the heart of your financial problems - you're too cheap to cover your own costs. If you fix that, show clients value rather than 'cheapness', you might be able to recover. Then again, your reputation with clients and potential staff is now so bad that you probably won't recover, and will continue with the cycle of cuts right the way to Chapter 11.
Agree with the OP treat your employees as %^%^%^ they will feel less motivated to do anything for company and its clients, as well as potentially walking or being WFR - loosing the company invaluable expertise and experience - along with deterioration of relationships between company and its clients
At the moment there is only one direction company is heading - mirroring the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic
So post person 'A' those L5s and above who are working hard and contribute directly to customer satisfaction are not worth a jot then. Shame on you and your cohorts. As ever we in this position are overlooked time and time again. I haven't had a pay rise in 10 years, and I'm off now, not because I hate the company, I just think that there is little motivation offered when you strive to get a decent appraisal year after year and for no point and still you end up in a WFR pool.
We are providing raises for L1 to L4, who are working hard and contribute directly to customer satisfaction. So there is progress. We need to be patient.