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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 To Cut About 6,650 Jobs, Battered by Plunging PC Sales

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  • by Ritz_Just_Ritz ( 883997 ) on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:33AM (#63268963)

    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.

    • by leonbev ( 111395 )

      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.

      • by Pascoea ( 968200 )

        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?

    • by ranton ( 36917 )

      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.

  • THEIR computers are defective, scam garbage hardware put together by a crazy person. I mean, HP Omen is worse but have you seen Alienware 2022? It should be illegal to sell something that incorrectly built.
    • by beheaderaswp ( 549877 ) * on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:46AM (#63268993)

      Dear God protect us from the Gamers Nexus fans.

      They will not inherit the earth.

    • 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)

    by crow ( 16139 ) on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:12AM (#63269073) Homepage Journal

    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.

    • by ranton ( 36917 )

      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.

      • by crow ( 16139 )

        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.

      • by Targon ( 17348 )
        Notice how AMD started to come back from near-death in 2017 as well, so as more people became interested in AMD based computers, that really encouraged more people to move away from Dell.
      • 5% is such a small cut I'm surprised they can't reach that through attrition in 1 year.
    • Several departments got fluffed entirely too much over the last 2 years. As long as youre not on anyones performance radar, I personally wouldn't worry about it.
  • Sorry folks, the Covid work-at-home rush is over. That, and everyone bought at the same time, and that same time, wasn't too far back.
    • by King_TJ ( 85913 )

      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?

  • "Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

  • by Anonymous Coward

    You're getting a pink slip.

  • AMD has been gaining in popularity over the past six years since the original Ryzen processors launched, yet Dell is still firmly married to Intel, including making a point of sabotaging the performance of AMD based computers that Dell offers. Desktop AMD Ryzen with Intel air coolers that also have airflow restricted with a DVD drive only 10mm above the cooler, just to make sure the CPU will thermal-throttle, and putting only a single 8-gig stick of memory in there for single-channel memory access. That
  • I'm hoping the layoffs include the incompetent tech support morons I have had to deal with at Dell.

  • 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.

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