Mark my words - Dell Plano layoffs are coming fast - downsizing will be big and job cuts will affect all groups

Any job cuts planned for Round Rock - I am super anxious and I'd appreciate any info you may have on Dell's plans to downsize, cut jobs, lay off people - you name it. Thanks!!!

I want to support made-in-USA products, but it's really hard to do so. It's virtually impossible to buy "Americans" nowadays.

The PC industry is changing, fast, rapid, but it is not completely dead. If eliminated Dell employees chiped in $10K+ each and few thousands of them started a company they could have put together tens of millions of dollars. Focus on one niche that... — read more 

Eliminating 15K positions today, getting the reorg right, and being able to hire talent again in the future is painful. Yet, it is certainly better than dropping 1K every quarter, year after year, never really resolving the problem (and killing the... — read more 

Dell layoffs have been widely rumored for almost a month now, widely reported, and seem very likely. What's even more interesting, and missing from the reports, was the news (which we can attribute to a quote at finance.yahoo.com) from Dell, and this... — read more 

Cuts in ever department, EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! Some of our departments have already cut to the bone and the execs are still asking for an additional 10 to 20 percent cut regardless of the current state. It'll be brutal, and I think we'll have very... — read more 

Dell has horrible consumer support - now imaging what's going to happen once they start laying even more people from this function - I wander if it will be worth even bothering buying anything from Dell once the hits take place. I think Dell will be... — read more 

http://www.zdnet.com/dell-layoffs-this-week-15000-to-be-hit-report-7000025879/

This in the plans, we'll end up with tens of thousands of people let go by the end of 2014. Mark my words, Dell will be cutting pretty deep this year - downsizing will be our #1 keyword.

Marketing will be hit big time, 20% of folks here in the States and 30% of sales folks in Europe will have to go. We have over 110,000 people so it's hard to say how much will be axed, if you are valuable you'll likely remain with us. Last month we... — read more 

What's the average severance here? Please let me know, I am not with Dell but working for a competitor and drying to compare severance plans. We get one week for a year of service and we are capped at 15 weeks, not too good of a deal in my opinion... — read more 

One of the worst and unprofessional companies I’ve ever had the chance of working with. Dell treats it's employees like garbage. If they even think you are not doing your job, you are gone in no time - no layoff here, FIRING. They do not care about... — read more