DXC CEO confirms boss of its field-based techies is OUT Frankenfirm DXC Technology over the weekend abruptly announced the immediate departure of Steve Hilton, the exec veep that ran the Global Delivery Organisation, and confirmed his temporary replacement. Hilton ran GDO since DXC began trading in April 2017. He controlled IT Operations, Application Management and Business Process …
DXC is doing exactly what it was founded to do, with 100% efficiency to be exact.
It was after all founded so that HPE could lay off tens of thousands of employees without having to pay severance packages! Just split the overhead (what HPE considers useless employees) into a new company and run it into the ground! Good luck getting your severance from a bankrupt company.
It fascinates me that this is legal...
My heart bleeds purple piss.
DXC had a major datacentre outage in Europe last week. Hundreds of accounts were affected for four days but customers and many staff were not told. The issue is rumoured to have been to do with a failure in the automation that Lawrie is relying on to replace people and line his own pockets with the savings.
The sacking may be related to that episode, it falls in Hilton's remit, but the underlying issue is just symptomatic of a company that was created to be run on a skeleton staff, milked for Exec bonuses and slowly die.
Interesting coincidence, I agree, but incident was pure power failure followed by couple of things which, as always in such cases, didn't want to start after power was restored, so nothing to do with automation. One may ask why things weren't done in redundant way, but this were shitty "savings" from HP times, nothing to do with Hilton or anyone else from current brass
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