Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Unfortunately it was ruined for everyone. I dont think any company wants to go out and have to lease new expensive buildings, but when a percentage of staff are too frightened to use a phone and managers dont know anything about their job to train them, this is what happens.

Bringing them all in to hit those phones and get the buzz back will help the people too afraid to ask. It will train the ones that need it and highlight the ones who are ready to lead. It will also be easy to spot the ones at the Mall

President/founder of the company and the head of HR both said, less than a year ago, how successful remote was. There is no reasonable rationale for spreading the pain like this.

Individual teams that can work together on occasion, should be asked to make the effort to do so as it fits them. Long time remote workers that just happen to live near an office where they have no teammates present will just be wasting time, money and productivity that could be better spent delivering stuff.

@1fke+1mxUgHEK - all i am hearing is SIMPING for a company that doesnt care about you when you are the one they want to get rid of one day for 'cost-cutting measures'.

a lot of people was working from home before the pandemic and want it to stay that way, me included.

i would look elsewhere if that was forced upon me as well, especially when the COO said it would NOT go back to that in 2021!

I do partially agree with you, but it also depends upon those new hires - in my company many of the new hires are not a good fit for the company, which leads to this scenario. The effects may be less if working with them physically (i.e. in office), but they would still be a big drain on our time anyway because they're just the wrong fit.

"But obviously a wrong fit isn't a good hire!". Yes, of course. But I feel this has gotten worse. Perhaps that's just my company hiring the wrong people, or maybe the hiring results aren't as good with our online-only interviews - I am not sure.

In contrast though I also worked on a 3-person project where one member was a fresh graduate new hire and it all went OK, because it was easy for two people to support one person and they were a good fit for our company.

@1zbj+1mxUgHEK

the office has always been there. Pre-Pandemic we had remote and flexible work arrangements. They are undoing that now.

Productivity went up during the pandemic by all measures.

go find some other company you can sit around and BS all day and snort coke in the bathroom at.

100% agree.

We just had our first RTO days, it was enlightening that people who for a year had been shy about certain customer facing tasks miraculously wanted to be involved. My inbox lit up with people keen to be part of things. People that previously would play dead when something was needed.

The bulk of the company know this will be a short term thing whilst we replace people that are treading water with people who want to be here.

To the people who are saying they will quit. Please do. Good choice, leave then.

It's pretty obvious that the people who are only here because of WFH are also the ones doing very little work. Hiding behind Tok Tok and crying when they are asked to make a phone call.

Useless management at all levels. They would not survive in a proper company. Full of id--ts

RTO is awesome. Getting to know your manager, team team team, own your work, go that extra mile, do it for the team!! Yeah baby!!

Unconscious bias much? I would not label those who argue against RTO as just juniors or college students. If an employee is hired, and you do your job to hire the right person, then you trust that person to get the job done. If the job is getting done, why would it matter where it’s getting done? If there’s an issue with certain employees not doing their job, then managers need to make sure that’s addressed - instead of being lazy. But please, don’t punish the ones that want to be remote and work their butts off day and night. They do exist in the over 40 group. Trust me.

Relax all Dell employees.

Haven't you heard APex is the cash cow.

Time to sit back and collect a pay check and nice bonus to boot.

@fnc+1mxUgHEK it has saved costs absolutely but tell us all about our cloud message again? What about the key features of our ranges or how to build a solution? Respond to a tender?

Oh thats right, those things that need to be done. Thats what needs to be done and you cant dial that in from Instagram and Tok Tok whilst having coffee with Jeffrey at the mall.

doesn't make sense going in when most of your team is in India

This is a bullsh-t post by senior managment to justify the RTO.
Dontisten to this cr-p.
If anythi g the WFH model has worked out better for Dell and many other companies.