Dell Laid Off About 10,000 Employees This Year

Dell has laid off a whopping 10,000 employees over the past fiscal year, but has not really explained why.

The Round Rock-based company buried the mention of their employee purge deep within a 331-page regulatory filing completed Monday, the Austin Business Journal reported.

The report showed Dell ended the fiscal year of 2015 with 98,300 total full-time employees, compared to 108,300 total full-time employees at the end of fiscal 2014. Dell currently has about 13,000 employees in Texas, compared to 14,000 last year.

“We’ve made a number of tough decisions, including workforce reductions,” Dell spokesman David Frink said, according to the Austin Business Journal. “As I’ve said on previous occasions, to protect the privacy of affected team members, we don’t comment on the number of reductions, or specifics within individual Dell businesses or sites.”

In February 2013, Dell was taken private by CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. At this time the company said no job cuts were anticipated.

“We do not anticipate job eliminations as a result of the proposed transaction,” the company said in an SEC filing at the time. “Rather, the proposed transaction will enable us to accelerate our long-term growth plan and transformation, and maintain our focus on helping customers achieve their goals.”