Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

The benefit of RTO...

If I were to drive the 2 hours in traffic to my local office, the number of people on my team or even within my BU that I would be able to physically interact with on a daily basis is exactly zero. The amount of equipment I would lay hands on: Zero. The number of customers I would meet: zero. My team was fully remote long before covid, and we've mastered collaboration and creation using technology. We're as productive working remotely as we would be sitting in cubes.

I suspect this is true for so many folks that work remote. The only real company objective that makes sense with the RTO policy is that this isn't about innovation and collaboration and whatever they think it has to do with AI. This is about shedding labor force and re-centralizing it into the campus regions where the labor pools are the deepest.

Nevermind that they are throwing away engineers with decades of experience.

So, what was the benefit of RTO again?

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Comment! It's anonymous!

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Facilities finally posted what offices are tentatively available for hybrid work. The amount of employees stranded with no office to return to is substantial. I wonder what Dell will do next when such a huge percentage will opt for remote because they have no other choice. Pull what IBM is doing or loosen up a bit?

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Post ID: @2hoh+1r34QmRm

OP, this is my experience as well. The RTO is designed to make us so unhappy that we leave and save them the severance. I've been Remote for around 9 years since they closed the Dell office closest to me. The next closest would be about 2 hours away, and there isn't anyone on my team or in my BU in that office.

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Post ID: @2pvj+1r34QmRm

Let's put on our tinfoil hats

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Post ID: @amf+1r34QmRm

How many were “compelled” to put foreign substances into their bodies and have lasting or final consequences? Perhaps the WFR and RTO culling is hedging the legal issues and therefore the balance sheet. 🤔

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exactly. the people here forget it's not a "come to office or quit" mandate.

It's comical. On one hand these same people are predicting massive layoffs every other week then the other hand is now switching to dell is too cheap to layoff.

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Post ID: @wrb+1r34QmRm

so what happens if I'm hybrid and just don't go in. Will they fire me or lay me off? If they lay me off, isn't that better than quitting.

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Post ID: @pzq+1r34QmRm

All you need is a garage, some sweat and a few million to start your new server, printer, PC and laptop business. Get moving or go to Lenovo and sell ThinkPads.

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Post ID: @squ+1r34QmRm

As others have said, WFR severance has been hurting the company financially and to curb that they are doing the RTO and making things around here pretty insufferable as a means to get you to quit without paying out. It’s truly a bummer.

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Post ID: @mnp+1r34QmRm

Jamie Dimon, Elon Musk, and Hock Tan school of management.

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Post ID: @doq+1r34QmRm

Making employees suffer for no reason is the point. They want you to quit voluntarily to avoid paying severance. Pure unchecked executive greed at the top right now; employees are no longer human to them.

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Post ID: @qol+1r34QmRm

RTO is to push people to resign as WFR is costing too much for the amount they want gone! If they need to ruin your productivity and workplace happiness to do that, so be it.

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