Dell Monday confirmed it has cut its global workforce by what it called a “small percentage,” which could mean a reduction of thousands of employees, according to a report in The Register.
Dell would not confirm exactly how many jobs have been cut.
Dell employed 113,000 workers worldwide at the end of its 2013 fiscal year, which ended 1 February 2013, according to its last annual report as a public company.
Dell went private last year after a protracted process that eventually saw control of the company return to founder Michael Dell.
In an e-mailed statement, Dell spokesman David Frink said he “can confirm that a small percentage of Dell’s global team members accepted the company’s offer of a significant severance package associated with a voluntary separation program.”
Frink said the company had “taken steps to optimise our business, streamline operations and improve our efficiency over the past few years. And, like any prudent business, we’ll continue to do so. Meanwhile, we’re hiring in strategic areas of our business, including hardware and software development, engineering and customer coverage worldwide.”
All the big enterprise vendors, Hewlett-Packard and IBM in particular, have cut their workforces in recent years.
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