Why did bp increase headcount 18% last year with ongoing strategic layoffs?
Has AI permitted bp to be leaner and meaner? And simpler?
Is bp’s AI a thing? Has bp’s super computer actually resolved making operations safer and more productive?
Are the 15,000 new employees hired last 20 months based in India? Are we removing one western employee and hiring 3 Sub Continent employees ?
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@e5 there’s 5000 “employees” in India both as tech support and in the poorly advised Brownfield operations contract which will be a thorn in Meg’s side.
Whole families are being hired in India and the performance is atrocious. It’s the modern day version of technical fiefdom.
@dz AI says 93,500, down from 100K
@dx Try AI…or Trading Economics
Yikes. Can you share a link to those figures. Google wasn’t my friend on this occasion.
Is West Lake a ghost town? How many people were let go in the last 2 years?
Pune has been largely a failure so far. For the basic IT stuff it’s probably fine but in engineering we just have them doing menial tasks which they still manage to drop the ball on. Our outsourced third party onshore engineering services were a lot better (and probably even cheaper!). Another classic BP own goal.
The extra headcount is in retail stations and India. Would love to see an honest ROI analysis on both of those operations.
Those new people definitely aren’t at the Westlake office. That place is a ghost town. There are about half the number of people at WL compared to 10 years ago.