Stingy DXC Tech tells staff to breathe in and tighten those belts Execs at DXC Technology have imposed a series of penny-pinching measures on staff just two months after the tech outsourcing corpse started trading, and amid a redundancy programme. The belt tightening message was delivered in a company memo, seen by us, which stated: “As part of combined efforts to improve our Q1 performance …
It's essentially about redirecting money. From people who actually do useful work, to box-tickers, bean-counters, form-drafters, policy-slingers and suits. If these parasites end up costing more than they save - no problem, there's always an excuse. Which generally results in MOOARR box-ticking, approval-begging, form-filling etc.
They do cost more but that comes out of a different budget.
The bean counters are not client facing so generally enjoy the same regeime on expenses as the bosses.
Having to explain why you went to a customer in order to save the contract seems to be beyond the MBA (more bloody arseholes) who run this sort of business these days is deeply degrading.
DXC is a dead man walking. Moves like this are almost the last throw of the dice when it comes to the lifecycle of a company. I should know, I saw it at DEC 20 years ago.
Different budgets - different responsibilities with no attribution to net costs.
When I was in part of the civil service in the 90s they changed travel expenses from 'per diem' to 'actuals' to cut costs. Under 'per diem' you got an allowance and kept what you didn't spend - so penny pinching hotels where the order of the day. Under 'actuals' you were only refunded for what you spent - so convience and hang to cost. Total travel expenses increased, obviously, but at least the peasants weren't making any money through "thrift".
More extreme (and the point at which I left) was graduate salaries being set by one group, and pay-rises by another. So by the end of my 10yrs there graduates where routinely coming in on higher salaries than the folks they were working for...
"When I was in part of the civil service in the 90s they changed travel expenses from 'per diem' to 'actuals' to cut costs."
You were lucky. Although I had to go to courts & crime scenes there always seemed to be some new IR reg that meant that my travel claim was invalid: start from home, should have started from the office, start from the office, should have started from home and that sort of nonsense.
I work for DXC and have no complaints. Most of us in the tech industry work remotely so the no travel thing is common practice to most of us. The consultants and delivery team along with sales all travel extensively. I have regular meetings remotely with my team and enjoy them without having to get on an airplane.
Are you complaining on my behalf? Please don't. I love my work family balance. I am also enjoying the company culture after the merge.
But it's crystal clear for everyone inside (I'm in DXC and ex-HP too) - it was told directly and many times that future delivery will be only done from global centers and absolutely minimum possible will be left in EU (there are some accounts that require support from inside EU) and for sure none of them will be left in high cost locations. Remaining delivery for such geographically restricted customers is now heavily moved from UK or Germany to Poland, Bulgaria or Slovakia. So anyone working in delivery in UK would have to be deaf and blind not to expect his position to dissappear sooner or later. However, there are lots of vacancies and lots of possibilities if only you want to learn (or know already) something modern and needed on the market and then your location doesn't really matter. I'm hiring people currently having 15+ vacancies in a team. And this is DXC initiative under new budget, so from my perspective it looks much better now than under ES.
Well done you.
I also work for DXC (transitioned from HPE) and have found them to be as equally useless so far as HPE before them, and CSC also. (I worked for CSC many years before). The company culture was embarrassing beforehand, and it's business as usual so far.
My current line manager I've verbally spoken to a grand total of once. Ever. They've been my manager for a year now, and our only conversation was to perform my EOY appraisal. I'd hope that some of this is a failing with individual managers, but from speaking with others in the business, it's not a one-off.
CSC, HPE and now DXC care only about one thing, and that's screwing as much money as possible from their customers, whilst not giving a damn about skilled employees.
It is true that DXC is cutting costs in every way possible and it is clearly impacting employees ability to perform their job. Employees are told over and over how the company considers them important but the company seems to act differently unless you are talking about the top 5% of the employees. The CEO is making millions upon millions while employees are told there will be now pay raises. The CEO holds huge off site events that require travel by lots of employees, spends tons of money on facilities and such for the event, had the event catered....etc. So all the cost cutting measures apply to the general employee but clearly not the CEO!
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