Usually, when any tech company has major layoffs there are countless articles about it. This has been true for Dell in the past as well. I don't know why there's barely any coverage this time. I guess people are getting desensitized to layoffs in general considering they are happening nonstop so it's no longer considered newsworthy.
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Because if the sh¹t is gonna hit the fan, it will be next week.
Yes the media cares. No Dell isn't paying a sh¹t ton to keep it off the media. There is way too many people willing to leak it to CRN or other outlets.
Yes people still care because it drives clicks/views to make ad revenue.
NO ONE GIVES A SH%T
Dell pays a lot of money to keep things out of the media.
Great example, this last week when Dell severed their relationship with VMware, they sent out a 411 to all the sales teams - and within 1 hour or less it was in the Wall Street Journal.
They know exactly what they are doing in terms of media (in my humble anonymous opinion)
They did a great job at keeping the employee su----e (an old friend of mine) quiet last year.
No articles on lay-off news, but the upcoming RTO mandate is starting to be reported.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/03/dell_return_to_work/
Most articles use the numbers posted on the layoffs.fyi tracker as their source reference - the Dell layoffs that happened this week are not listed there yet. There are plenty of articles on tech WFR that happened this month, most have picked up the trend that it’s to increase the share price. Dell will be mentioned in these articles once those numbers are in the public domain.
The company is good at hiding it.
Where do you see these layoffs ?