Dell introduced a return-to-office mandate in February that provides distant employees negative consequences for working from home, in keeping with a latest report by Business Insider.
The return-to-work policy cracks down on distant work by making it unattainable for distant employees to get a promotion or change roles, in keeping with BI. Just about all staff shall be classified as distant or hybrid ranging from May, with hybrid employees required to are available in about three days per week.
“For distant team members, it will be significant to grasp the trade-offs: Profession advancement, including applying to latest roles in the corporate, would require a team member to reclassify as hybrid onsite,” the memo reads.
BI’s source at Dell pulled data concerning the composition of distant teams and located that the distant employees affected “are overwhelmingly women.”
“This latest policy on its face appears to be anti-remote, but in practice shall be anti-woman,” the source said.
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, is speaking on the ”New Strategies for a New Era” keynote on the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Other Dell employees told BI that they think the brand new policy is a approach to quietly fire employees. Dell laid off 5% of its workforce, around 6,650 employees, in February 2023.
Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell previously weighed in on whether or not working in an office allows for a bonus with regards to aspects like promotion, performance, and engagement.
“At Dell, we found no meaningful differences for team members working remotely or office-based even before the pandemic forced everyone home,” Dell wrote in a 2022 social media post.