Layoffs have been a constant at Dell since the early 2000’s. They’ll slowly slice the 165k employee count in phases in order to not freak out the market and further reduce the stock price. You’ll see a large one like they just did at 6.5k again but most likely a smaller bulk layoff that is recurring that actually totals out to much larger than 6.5k. This will help keep the reductions out of the news.
I think @gwp+1lvKLKQx is right, this is exactly what we'll be looking at.