I saw this recently.
27 people.
All day meeting ("workshop").
To discuss changing a well design on the sequence in 2027.
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don’t forget to wear your shell pin
I read this in Borat’s voice.
I wish to celebrate OP on believing that "efficiency" can actually happen in Shell. This inspires me to go forward and Be The Change.
Efficiency is more than the product of cranking out your isolated assembly line output. It is sitting in meetings so that you see how decisions are made, meeting the people making them, being seen, learning something outside of your core discipline, the more outside the better. A workshop can be as good or better than just training. At some point, if enough people in your department are tied up all day, the others can't function so their time is better spent joining. Maybe too many people, maybe too long. It really depends on who was there and what they got out of it. Or maybe it was a Fit for Dilbert moment.
Efficiency often comes when people know what they are doing and what to expect.
Frantic and reactionary doesn't feel like efficient even if you make the right choices.
But yeah, 27 people to make an inconsequential decision that doesn't need to be made. I see that is not just anxiety, it isn't exactly psychosis either. It is further on the spectrum on the psychosis side though.
Keep an eye on whoever called the meeting.