I find it strange that in a lot of EMEA countries nothing is known yet. Does anyone knows more about the WFR plans for Belgium?
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in EMEA and in western Europe, local rules are more protecting people compared to US or a lot of countries. In such countries, unions and employee representatives are negociating with the company when such event is ocuring. Negociations can be done about compensations for leaving, protecting some kind of employees (lowest revenues, disabled people, people having social problems etc ...). It means, workforce reduction plan take some time to be started and it costs money to DXC to start it. EMEA is a bunch of small countries, having all their specifics and it's huge effort to start such plan in Belgium, France, Netherland etc ...
So, DXC is focusing on countries where it's quick to fire people. It means countries where social rules are less protecting people. DXC can make quick savings with the lower level of effort.
But, don't worry, it will come in such countries. For example in France, a plan has been raised, but refused from DXC headquarter, because to much expensive. But DXC is bit blocked, because some negociations have been signed before the merge to securize people jobs in return unions decision to not fight against the merge using justice (because CSC is not very clear about some topics). DXC wanted to go fast, so they signed. Now, they can't run massive work force reduction before mid 2018 if I'm not wrong. So, DXC is harassing people to make them leave, or firing some ones for professional faults about any small reason they can find. Like everywhere, it's very difficult to perform the job, and a lot of people are leaving because they have enough about the way this company is working. So, it's work force reduction for free for DXC.
So, lay off plans for EMEA countries are coming, or are running through a différent way, which is more "silent".
From my side, I can say, a lot of HPE-ES EMEA customers are very "suspicious" about this DXC company. About main account I work for, since the merge announce, we have not signed any new business. Before it, we had about 60% of growth every year. So, I'm very pessimistic about the business, and then, for our jobs.
AFAIK they have just moved the CSC office into an HPE one.
Looking at the pattern elsewhere, this is the prelude to axing people.