Dell has confirmed that an unspecified number of job cuts,was based on decisions made early in 2020 and unrelated to the pandemic.
The vendor refused to put a figure on the number of employees affected, but it said: “Like all businesses right now, we’re taking a number of proactive steps to prepare for the uncertainties presented by COVID-19. We recently made some workforce reductions that reflect decisions made in early 2020 as part of regular evaluations of our business structure, and weren’t related to the pandemic.”
The number of redundancies have been rumoured to be about six percent of Dell’s 160,000 workforce globally and under 2,000.
Dell shuffled its workforces in Europe, bringing together teams that had previously been split between the original Dell business and the acquired EMC business under the leadership of a single exec, as the EMC brand moved into the background. It recently merged its direct and indirect sales teams.
