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Chloe Berger

Dell employees just torpedoed the company's annual report card after it withheld remote workers' promotions and tracked attendance

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It turns out that treating your workers like school children (and not in a “you earned a pizza party” kind of way) tends to backfire. Summer is in full force, this year’s report card is in, and Dell Technologies’ executives are staring straight at a fresh-off-the-presses failing grade.

Scores from the technology giant’s latest employment engagement survey, called “Tell Dell,” paint a picture of slipping satisfaction. The annual survey has been running for eight years now, and employees’ submitted sentiments from May were shared in late June, sources told to Business Insider.

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