After the outbreak of the pandemic, many companies decided to work remotely, but now more and more companies are moving away from this solution. Dell has decided that employees who work entirely remotely from May this year will not be eligible for promotion. Why this decision?
Dell gives ultimatums to employees who work remotely
According to the computer company, if an employee wants to apply for a promotion, he or she must switch from remote work to hybrid work. Then he should spend at least three days a week in the office. In total, they should come to the workplace 39 times during the quarter.
“For remote team members, it is important to understand the trade-offs: Career advancement, including applying for new positions within the company, will require the team member to reclassify to a hybrid on-site job,” Dell said in a statement cited on the site . “In today’s global technology revolution, we believe that personal connections combined with an agile approach are critical to driving innovation and differentiating value,” Dell said.
However, the decision of the American company is surprising because previously the company highly praised fully remote work. According to her calculations, currently about 15 percent. employees in each team work fully remotely. Google, Meta and Amazon have also decided to change their remote work rules over the last year.
Dell wants to avoid collective layoffs and paying severance pay?
According to employees, in this way Dell wants to reduce the number of people employed and at the same time avoid mass layoffs. – Employment cuts are necessary and we are suffering because of it. If people leave on their own, they will not have to pay severance pay, one of the company’s employees pointed out in an interview with . Let us recall that last year Dell dismissed approximately 6,650 people – according to the portal’s findings. In Poland, Dell employs approximately 2.3 thousand. people, 250 of whom work in Warsaw.
Source: Gazeta
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