I have known of firms who have laid off 99 people every three months and one day to avoid triggering this type of thing. Guess Dell were just in a hurry.
May is the cruellest month - especially for these California storage techies
The state of California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system shows that 68 DSSD staff are being laid off. Dell closed down its high-performance NVME solid state drive and fabric connected DSSD D5 array earlier this month because there was an insufficient market for the product. At the time Dell said …
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Wednesday 15th March 2017 13:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
They were told - employees were notified well before the Reg or the State - and they did receive decent packages. Having survived quite a few of these "actions" at EMC, I'd say they were treated as well as anyone can be treated under the circumstances... it's sad that so much talent was lost, though.
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