Dell Workers Numbers Have Fallen by 25,000 within the Final Two Years

Laptop maker Dell’s workers numbers have fallen by 25,000 within the final two years.

In its newest 10-Okay submitting, revealed on Tuesday, the corporate mentioned that it had about 108,000 international staff as of January 31, 2025.

In February 2024, that quantity was 120,000, marking a ten% annual discount within the workforce.

Wanting again two years, Dell’s head depend stood at 133,000, which means that since February 2023, the Texas-based tech firm has lowered its workforce by 19%.

The decline in Dell’s head depend comes after a yr of each layoffs and RTO mandates.

In August, the corporate considerably restructured its gross sales division, which it instructed employees was crucial to organize for “the world of AI.” As a part of the restructuring, Dell laid off employees, although it didn’t specify what number of.

The corporate has additionally carried out a collection of RTO mandates all through 2024, step by step encouraging employees again to the workplace through the yr earlier than lastly ordering all who dwell inside 90 minutes of an workplace to return to their desks 5 days per week this January.

The RTO mandates have proved unpopular with some Dell staff. After they had been requested to categorise as both hybrid or distant in February 2024, roughly 50% of Dell’s full-time staff within the US opted to remain distant, regardless that that meant they might forgo promotions to take action. A number of staff have instructed BI that the RTO insurance policies had been prompting them to look elsewhere for work.

“By an ongoing collection of actions, we have gotten a leaner firm. We’re combining groups and prioritizing the place we make investments throughout the corporate,” Dell instructed Enterprise Insider.

Dell’s annual income was up 8% in its 2024 monetary yr, however the firm’s shares have dropped 15% to this point in 2025.

In response to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, CEO Michael Dell’s internet value has fallen by $16.6 billion in 2025 — the second-biggest drop in private wealth after Elon Musk

Dell notably upheld its dedication to range, fairness, and inclusion practices within the SEC submitting.

A number of main tech firms, together with Meta, Alphabet, and Salesforce, have rolled again their DEI applications and reporting practices amid the broader range backlash that has gathered tempo because the Trump administration entered workplace.

“At Dell Applied sciences, we consider wide-ranging views are highly effective,” the corporate mentioned. “We consider {that a} workforce numerous in expertise and background drives innovation and development.”

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