5% of total Dell FTEs
US has a higher % of that mix
2 months, plus one week per year
COBRA 2 months
Comms start Monday, 2/6 last day for those impacted is 2/10.
Yes, front line managers know who on their teams.
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This is accurate in all details. I had my parting ways meeting, this morning, Feb 6th (Mon), I'm in CSG's umbrella, and I'm US based.
What are the general talking points in the script?
You guys work on EOQ?
My manager was told 5% across the board. He has been told to stack rank the team, and earlier this week was waiting to hear if he had to cut one or two. Ranking was due with annual review. I was told I was safe, I guess we shall see.
my manager's manager has checked out...he knows something. I'm not doing any work until Wednesday.
Hello OP again.
To answer your question I think it would very much depend on what organization you are in. For example, if you are in sales, I know that one of the qualifiers that was looked at is anyone that hasn’t made 70% in the last two halves. For other areas, such as engineering, IT, operations, other factors would be taken into account. Those factors could be things like stack rank, overall performance, but mainly scalability. Scalability is a tricky word, and is very subjective by the evaluating manager.
All names for the stack ranks were submitted for the first time in December. Many organizations asked for a second. All of those were vetted through legal, HR, etc.
I am hearing from other leaders out there, that the names given back to them were nowhere near what their stack rank reflected.
It’s important to remember that Dell is shooting for an Opex savings. So the number of people is only part of the equation. How much they make, and other related expenses are taken into account.
I know this is a long answer and doesn’t exactly address your question. However, I will say that a lot of time and effort went into it. I will also say that your first line management team had almost no say in who was chosen.
I hope this helps, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
Much like the rest of the industry, cut down on OPEX, overall head count, top grade performance concerns. Decisions are done through multiple streams and feedback from all levels. Names submitted a month back and had to pass several layers of HR/legal reviews before final list of impacted approved. Scripts and training delivered this week.
What guidance or criteria was given to managers for ranking or putting people on the list?
Are managers driving the selection or Directors?
How long ago was the ranking done?
As a “notifier”, OP is 100% accurate on all counts.
Mon/Tues/Wed next week.
These numbers seem correct based on my experience at Dell. If you talk to customers regularly (sales and support), you are more insulated. If you are in the general and administrative bucket, you are in more danger. It's the end of the fiscal year, so the timing seems right too. Best of luck to everyone
hmmm. starts on a Monday
It’s definitely next week, definitely significant.
What is FTEs
so many things wrong with this prediction I dont know where to even start
uh. no. no one believes this.
another hoax.
It's happening next week. I'm pretty sure I'm on that list. Tuesday is my meeting.
Hi. OP here first time to post on here as well. I don’t care if anybody believes I am just sharing what came across my email.
I’m not asking anyone to believe me and we will know for sure by Monday. But to answer the question I personally am 100% sure.
It for real this time ? or its the boy who cried wolf , the wolf is really coming this time but nobody believes it .
LoL. This again.
Are we super duper for sure?
5% not as bad as a lot of people were guessing it would be.