Around 150 sales professionals have been let go at Dell Technologies in a latest round of job cuts. These cuts have almost completely dissolved the tech company’s ‘new logo’ acquisitions team. A few team members have reportedly been reassigned to other departments within the organisation, while the rest have been asked to leave.
Employees reportedly were aware of an ongoing reorganisation and restructuring but the elimination of the acquisitions team came quite suddenly and as a surprise.
Only last month it was revealed in an internal survey that Dell Technologies’ employees were not very happy. The survey, aptly called Tell Dell revealed that the staff members were exhausted, bogged down by work stress and are worried about their jobs. Additionally, the discontentment caused by the return-to-office mandate had brought the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) tumbling. The score that measures satisfaction levels had dropped to 32, which is quite a significant fall considering it was 63 in 2023 and 48 in 2024.
In March, it was reported that Dell Technologies had reduced its workforce by 10 per cent in the 2025 fiscal, bringing its headcount down to about 1.08 lakh employees from around 1.20 lakh the previous year. The move was said to be part of the company’s ongoing cost-cutting measures, including limiting external hiring and reorganising staff. Last year, that is, in 2024, Dell’s workforce had already decreased by around five per cent.
Will Dell end up relying more on partners as is the case with most original equipment manufacturers (OEM) worldwide that have laid off people? Given the quality of talent let go, is Delhi likely to rehire some of the best? We can only wait and watch.
