From CRN.com
"DXC Technology is cutting costs. The newly-formed company said Tuesday it had axed four layers of management in its delivery and support organizations and shrunk its real estate footprint by 7 percent during its first quarter of operations."
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/300090211/dxc-technology-shuts-58-facilities-makes-broad-management-cuts-in-a-1b-cost-savings-push.htm/pgno/0/1?itc=ticker
People Managers and functional managers, what a total waste. The People managers don't really know what your working on and are almost useless with questions. The whole two-in-a-box management model is just stupid.
It's like someone said on another post: DXC is not a company; it is a financial instrument that is to be wrung dry by senior leadership as long as it's up and running. Then, like a used paper towel, it will be discarded. That's why there is no strategy, no vision, no growth, no communication, and frankly no concern about any of that from the top, since their sole intent is to enhance their own personal wealth.
I remember CSC being a place of endless powerpoints and useless meetings.
Meetings just for the sake of meetings. There were seldom any agenda's or any real sense of what anyone wanted to get out of those meetings or even what the desired end game should be. They even had a layer of meetings to 'go over' what was discussed in the layer of meetings above, which some then couldn't attend because they were in meetings!
I reckon 10,000 managers were in permanent meetings whilst the bottom 2 layers were actually delivering to customers and meeting SLA's. I am not just anti-management bashing here, as some were really bright, business focussed people who knew how to deal with clients, but unfortunatetly as we know, most of those left.
On the positive side, we don't get as many powerpoints these days. Maybe that's because no-one has a clue what direction or land mass this ship is steering towards. Sure a few containers have filled and 30% of it is below sea-level. But it might be because no-one wants to look at 20 slides of depressing 'black and white' layouts spun out for an hour.
It's odd that DXC use black and white, when most of their strategy would favour grey,
So perhaps DXC needs only 4 layers. 2 Layers of management to write stategy and buy-up little pure-plays that come with ready-made experience and solutions and keep the bottom 2 layers of cheap resource to deliver and support and act as the management contingency reserve when the share-price drops?
Attempting to cut your way to prosperity never works.
So there are now 'only' 7 layers of management in Deliver and 6 layers in the support functions.
Whilst there needs to be SOME management; people at the very top who should be setting strategy etc and people at the coal face need management I do wonder what those in the middle actually do day-to-day.
Did they replace the 4 layers of management with another 4 layers of MIS-managers?