IT House reported on March 17 that according to BusinessInsider, large-scale layoffs have become a trend in the technology industry. This year alone, Amazon has laid off 16,000 people, Jack Dorsey's financial technology company Block has laid off half of its employees, and software company Atlassian has laid off 4,000 people, accounting for about 10% of its total employees. Meta is reportedly preparing to lay off 20% or more of its employees.
PC giant Dell has taken a different approach: quietly but systematically reducing the size of its workforce.
In its latest 10-K annual report filed on Monday local time, Dell said that as of January 31, 2026, the company had approximately 97,000 employees. The figure means the company has shed 11,000 jobs over the past year.
This data includes natural attrition and voluntary layoffs, but a clear trend has emerged – Dell's employee size has shrunk by 10% for the third consecutive year.
Currently, Dell has 36,000 fewer employees than in February 2023, a decrease of 27% in three years.
Dell said that in fiscal 2026, the company will reduce costs through "reorganization of personnel, limiting external hiring and other actions" to align investments with the company's announced strategy and customer focus.
This year’s tech layoff announcements that have caused an uproar have one thing in common: companies are linking layoffs to the transformation of artificial intelligence.
Internal announcements from Block and Atlassian's CEO both emphasized that technology is profoundly changing work patterns and therefore the number of employees companies will need in the future.
Dell may not be as high-profile in announcing layoffs, but like the rest of the industry, the company is undergoing a massive modernization effort to prepare for an AI-driven future.
In its 10-K filing, Dell said it will "manage costs in conjunction with ongoing business modernization initiatives."
The latest annual results show that Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), which is responsible for the server and storage infrastructure business, saw revenue grow by 40% in fiscal year 2026, and the company expects revenue from artificial intelligence-optimized servers to double in 2027.
Internally, Dell is preparing to implement standardized processes across all business lines and launch a unified enterprise platform. The project is named "One Dell Road." According to reports, in an internal notice in January this year, Dell told employees that the system reform would be "the largest transformation in the company's history."
IT House has noticed that, consistent with other trends in the technology industry, Dell is also tightening its office policies for its current 97,000 employees: first, it required employees who live near the office to return to the office to work full-time, and more recently, in February this year, it launched a more stringent sales staff salary system.
