Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year

Dell this week disclosed it has 120,000 workers, which is about 13,000 fewer than it had at the start of 2023. That means it has laid off almost double the number of people it previously indicated. The revelation is somewhat buried in a 198-page 10-K submission by the IT giant to America's securities watchdog, the SEC, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Dell don't need no stinkin' employees! We got AI!

[ThatOne]

On the contrary, I am relieved they invest in Artificial Intelligence, since they are clearly lacking in Natural one.

_{(Typed on a Dell computer...)}

[T. F. M. Reader]

They are hallucinating...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll just point out that 6% annual attrition could be in line with expectations, and is close the discrepancy between prior layoff counts provided and the delta in overall headcount.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems to be an exact decimation.

Looks like the business elites are moving on from reading Sun Tzu to Polybius

[yetanotheraoc]

came here to make the same point

"6% annual attrition could be in line with expectations"

According to zippia.com national average annual turnover is 6% involuntary plus 12% voluntary. So if Dell laid off 6650 that's 5.00% involuntary, and if they are down 13,000 overall that's an additional 4.77% voluntary. Both numbers actually sound "not so bad" compared to national averages.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/employee-turnover-statistics/