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Dell’s 6,650 Layoffs: 5 Big Changes, Cuts, Michael Dell Things To Know
Mark Haranas
As Dell Technologies reduces its 133,000-strong workforce by 5 percent, CRN breaks down the biggest things channel partners, investors and employees need to know about the cuts and Dell’s vision for the future.
Michael Dell Has Not Commented On Layoffs
Interestingly, Michael Dell—who founded Dell in his college dorm room in the 1980s—did not write the layoff letter to employees. In fact, Michael Dell has not posted anything on social media as of Monday morning regarding the layoffs at the company he founded over 30 years ago.
Typically, what has occurred during these large IT layoffs that have taken place in 2022 and 2023 is the CEO writes the letter to employees.
For example, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote the letter to his employees announcing his company’s 10,000 layoffs, as did Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
Michael Dell’s last post on LinkedIn came on Feb. 5, which touted Dell’s PowerStore storage systems. On Twitter, Dell’s last post came on Feb. 3, highlighting an upcoming Dell conference in May.
It will be interesting to see if Michael Dell comments Monday on the layoffs at the company he started from scratch. It’ll be even more interesting if he doesn’t.
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