Dell To Cut About 6,650 Jobs, Battered by Plunging PC Sales (bloomberg.com) 38
Dell is eliminating about 6,650 roles as it faces plummeting demand for personal computers, becoming the latest technology company to announce thousands of job cuts. From a report: The reduction amounts to about 5% of Dell's global workforce, the company said in a regulatory filing early Monday. Dell is experiencing market conditions that "continue to erode with an uncertain future," Co-Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke wrote in memo viewed by Bloomberg.
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Dell quality is not worth Dell price.
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where I work we bought a $2300 precision laptop (chosen due to actual ethernet port & quadro) and it is now on it's 2nd motherboard under warranty. I'm certain we could have got a equivalent pre-owned thinkpad for $500 or less and had zero problems with near identical performance.
It IS a nice laptop, but come-on man.
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You think the 7560 gets hot? Try the older 7510, now that thing's a flamethrower.
Then again, this series of Precision laptops is supposed to be a portable workstation, so running hot is kind of expected in this use case.
Location of layoffs (Score:4)
It will be interesting to see where most of these layoffs occur since they are pinning this on soft consumer sales. Their laptop/desktop products are not produced in the US.
I also wonder how they are doing in the datacenter market as companies push for more dense and power efficient server products.
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I'd imagine that a lot of companies now have a portion of their staff who have become experts in pretending to be busy and doing no actual productive work. They've been "working" from home since March of 2020, and have become experts at attending Teams meetings and pushing JIRA tickets around in an attempt to look useful.
This round of layoffs might be the excuse they needed to get rid of these people.
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They've been "working" from home since
What's the matter? Pissy that your boss makes you come to the office every day? Or are you the boss that's pissy because your employees are clawing back some work/life balance?
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your pithy useless responses is, exactly, that.
Hey, Pot. Meet Kettle.
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...you will be replaced by someone who will.
Your boss tell you to say that, or did you come up with that wonderful insight all by yourself? With that attitude, I sure hope you're not actually in charge of people. If my boss were to treat me like that I'd be more than happy to let them try and replace me. Some of us are actual professional adults that are capable of getting our shit down without some pointy haired boss breathing down our necks.
Work/life balance means you think you are entitled to play video games all day at home.
Again, thank you for that wonderful nugget of bullshit...
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It will be like all other layoffs have been lately ... a way to fire underperforming staff and staff in bloated departments without calling it a firing. The layoffs will be spread across the company, not just in personal computer sales.
correction (Score:1)
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Dear God protect us from the Gamers Nexus fans.
They will not inherit the earth.
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+1 Funny!
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I recently had the (dis)pleasure of disassembling three Alienware 3090 GPUs for watercooling conversion.
I hope the genius who chose to literally drown the entire GPU chip area in thermal paste (must have been at least 15 grams of paste on each) is laid off in this round.
Also worth mentioning the thermal pads were of horrible quality (sponge-like).
After I converted them to watercooling, they offer pretty good performance, well, two of three. One of them uses up 100+W more for the same performance, I narrowed
Dell Employee (Score:4, Informative)
As a Dell employee, I'm concerned. Dell has said it was avoiding layoffs up to this point because they cut back hiring earlier than other companies. They did send out an email to employees this morning saying that there would be reductions, but never mentioned anything about the numbers. That's pretty big.
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Dell is a bit different than most of the big tech companies announcing layoffs, because they didn't massively hire over the past 2-3 years. Their headcount will now be at 2017 levels, back when the company's market cap was 40% of what it is now.
But what is likely to be similar to big tech layoffs is that Dell will use this as an opportunity to cut low performers and bloated departments. If your performance reviews are strong you aren't likely to be in trouble, unless you are part of a struggling department.
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Thank you. It was nice to see a response that is well thought-out, friendly, and encouraging. I do think my team is pretty safe, though there's always a risk that some small number of cuts will cascade down from management, leaving managers without any good choice left to figure out someone to drop.
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Overprovisioning (Score:2)
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That was my first thought, but one post above yours, the guy claims Dell never really hired larger numbers of people during COVID.
So this might simply be Dell deciding it's time to lean out the company and ditch lower performing departments?
Karma (Score:1)
"Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
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You're getting a pink slip.
It's about time (Score:2)
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I'm hoping the layoffs include the incompetent tech support morons I have had to deal with at Dell.
Nothing worth buying (Score:1)
Dell does not have anything worth buying anymore, and none of their shit can be customized. You may as well just go to the local Wally-world as the selection is the same, and Wally-world is cheaper for the same quality.