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Staff: Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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If you're going to make the assertion that this disproportionately affects women, and don't cite any evidence other than "this might affect spouses of military members who move a lot" I have to question the basis for claiming this affects women more than men. Especially because there's strong federal legislation that would effectively bar Dell from government work/contracts if they did anything that even remotely smells like they are attacking the spouses of military members.

> and don't cite any evidence other than "this might affect spouses of military members who move a lot"

It's in the article itself. Also, confidential sources are supposed to be, well, confidential.

> Our first source cited personal experience of the return-to-office order's impact and told us only two men were affected, compared to 29 women. Our source made calculations about the impact using internal data, and suggested women will bear the brunt of the RTO mandate.

> "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.

This suggests that the source has access to HR records.

They could also be making all this up, of course, but I wouldn't trust Dell as an entity that respects workers' rights.

Too many people are 'overemployed' recently. Many even no longer hide it, although it's certainly a criminal fraud. Companies have to resolve it one day, it's too stupid to leave that much money on the table by doling it out to criminals.

In general, i understand where far-right 'tough on crime' people are coming from. Too many crimes have become so habitual and chronically, systematically unenforced they are hardly seen as wrongdoings by most people committing them. Blatant, in-the-open illegal immigration, chronic intentional vagrancy, 'overemployment', casual scams of all sorts. Someone has to put an end on it.

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