Previous cost-cutting measures, including a hiring pause and travel limitations, are no longer enough, Clarke said in the statement.
Department reshuffles and job cuts are an opportunity to increase efficiency, a company spokesperson told Bloomberg News.
Dell did not immediately respond to an email from Reuters seeking comment.
ANDCompanies including Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com Inc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc have cut thousands of jobs recently to help weather a slowdown in demand as consumer spending slows. and business shrinks due to high inflation and rising interest rates.
Layoffs in the United States reached a maximum of more than two years in January, as tech companies cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to prepare for a potential downturn.
The layoffs affected 102,943 workers, more than double the number in December and more than five times the number a year earlier, according to the report by the firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
The pressure to correct the excesses of the pandemic has been most evident in the technology sector, which cut 41,829 jobs last month, the most of any sector.
Retail, second only to technology, cut 13,000 jobs in January, compared to virtually no layoffs a year earlier. Financial companies, for their part, cut 10,603 jobs last month, compared to 696 the previous year. “Companies that have increased their workforces in recent years will likely reduce them as the economy heads for a rough patch,” said Edward Moya, an analyst at OANDA.
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