![]() One can imagine the disappointment when Clarke informed everyone via email this week that they would have to start coming back into the office three days per week. Many employees took this to mean they would never have to set foot in the office again. Dell bragged about company productivity being at an all-time high in a September 2022 LinkedIn blog post, adding that forced office work is "doing it wrong." It was a sentiment that even CEO Michael Dell echoed. "Here at Dell, we expect, on an ongoing basis, that 60 percent of our workforce will stay remote or have a hybrid schedule where they work from home mostly and come into the office one or two days a week." "After all of this investment to enable remote everything, we will never go back to the way things were before," Clarke said in a Q2 2021 earnings call. At the time, Dell COO Jeff Clarke said the "investment" was such that the company would likely just keep people working from home rather than call them back into the office. ![]() The company went to great expense to equip these employees with the tools to do their jobs remotely. Most of Dell's staff started working strictly from home during the pandemic. However, the company now wants them back in the office at least three days per week. Statements from top executives in 2021 led them to believe they could work from home forever. ![]() A hot potato: Some Dell employees are fuming about a perceived broken promise regarding working from home.
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