Are you going to hire any DEC's in the foreseeable future? Answer: No!
You wouldn't have known this but the first time an EK manager announced there would be no more DECs was back in 1997 or thereabouts. The then HFO GJ said he would be EKs last DEC. Since then the 'last DEC' has turned up at least half a dozen times.
What you should have picked up on is that anything said here is only true until the start of the next working day or lunchtime if it's said in the morning.
Here's a quote from TCAS made back in 2009:
Emirates will not relax its strict rule that, no matter how many flying hours a recruit has notched up, everyone joining the flightdeck does so as a first officer.
The whole article is here:
Middle East supplement: Emirates back in the hunt soon - 4/17/2009 - Flight Global