To cut costs, introduce voluntary retirement scheme to its staff-Dell Dell, layoffs-IT information To cut costs, Dell to introduce voluntary staff separation scheme

According to the Wall Street Journal reported this week, Dell has been presented to its employees, "the voluntary departure scheme", employees can choose whether to accept the buyout agreement of separation. The plan as of December 20.

Dell spokesman David Frink has responded, said this decision was made in order to improve cost structures, cost-cutting, to prepare for the long-term investments today. But the spokesman did not explicitly say the company needs to cut staff, as well as automatically leaving an insufficient number of cases, whether the company will take the initiative to get rid of jobs.

The industry believe that sustained downturn in the PC market is the root cause of Dell layoffs in disguise.

为削减成本，戴尔向员工提出自愿离职计划 - 戴尔,裁员 - IT资讯
为削减成本，戴尔向员工提出自愿离职计划

根据《华尔街日报》报道，本周戴尔已经向其员工提出了“自愿离职计划”，员工可以选择是否接受离职买断协议。该计划截至12月20日。

戴尔发言人David Frink对此作出了回应，表示公司做出此项决策是为了于改善成本结构，削减成本，为今天长远投资做准备。不过该发言人未明确表示公司具体需要裁掉多少员工，以及自动离职人数不够的情况下公司是否会主动进行裁员。

业界认为，目前PC市场的持续低迷是戴尔变相裁员的根本原因。