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Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women

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Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open

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"You can also see it in the new parent (maternity/paternity leave) policies. Male employees can come back to do the same job again, whereas female employees are guaranteed a job when they return, but there is no guarantee it will be the same one they had when they left."
wtf?
- Yeahhhhh I am not a lawyer but I think that might actually be illegal, specifically because of the explicitly different treatment based simply on gender.
  
  Someone might be able to argue constructive dismissal too, if the job that they get after leave is worse than the job that they had before they went on maternity leave.
  
  Sounds like clear gender discrimination.
  
  Would it still be illegal if it's based on time? Like I'll make this up but suppose their policy was men get 2 weeks paternity leave, but women get 2 months maternity. It might actually make sense then.
- That’s the legal standard on FMLA. Important to note the pay has to be the same.
In November, Dell reported Q3 fiscal 2024 revenue of $22.3 billion – down ten percent year-over-year. Profits were healthy, however, at over $1 billion for the quarter, a 317 percent year on year rise.
Yep. We made a billion dollars in clear all-gravy profit in the last three months. Welp, time for some layoffs.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"Despite this information, leaders are still not confident that this will last long, as major metropolitan areas previously known to house large cultural pillars of the brand (Miami, New York City, etc.)
Under that policy, articulated in a company memo [PDF] that appears to date from early 2021, 65 percent of Dell Technologies employees enjoyed flexible work arrangements.
"Per sample data pulled, this group is disproportionately female," with women whose partners serve in the military perhaps especially impacted as life in uniform often means relocation.
Those who spoke to us expressed frustration with the way Dell management has handled the RTO mandate, citing the inconsistency of managerial messaging in group settings and in private, lack of accommodations for individual circumstances, and disinterest in employee needs.
Each new memo on the RTO continues to bring AI into the conversation; positioning the solutions as bleeding edge, meanwhile the house is barely being held together internally."
A Dell spokesperson replied that the computer corp had nothing to say beyond the statement provided for our previous story earlier this month: "We shared with team members our updated hybrid work policy.
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Figured honestly, 2x rounds of layoffs over here and amidst promises no more will occur, returning to office is being brought out of nowhere
- I'm waiting for my company to demand it. I don't even live in the same state.
So Employees is a class method on women?

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