The reason the current organization is so large is failure by the current management to control costs when oil was $200 a barrel. We are now facing cuts of up to 35% of Shell staff to save $1billion of overhead costs. Meanwhile senior management are... — read more 

Also this 6500 number doesn't count the contractors and BG employees. Almost all of BG employees, even senior management expect to be let go.

While Shell maintains that it is not laying off people we have seen a drastic decrease in contractor pay and termination of contracts in order to save displaced staff jobs. Within the staff community they are forcing retirement and artificially... — read more 

Rumor is they're cutting staff in the square. Is offshore next? Tough to say.

Shell was one of the best Oil and Gas companies I worked for. The management actually knew what they were doing and pay was fairly high. At that time I was paid hourly so I appreciated the fact that I can work up to 12 hours / day, however after some... — read more 

Things are starting to unravel, Shell will go through massive layoffs as prices will go down and the whole industry will remain depressed for a while? Is this only a 2015 thing, will it be longer? I have no clue, but I know that there are larger... — read more 

Royal Dutch ShellPLC is cutting hundreds of jobs at an Alberta oil sands project - we'll know more later this month but this is not a good sign for anyone here in Alberta

Do you know who is affected in Houston, I hear that there might be a mass layoff situation over there and just wanted to check with folks on this site. It seems that all companies are going through the same situation. I was with shell through 2011, I... — read more 

If the oil prices continue to fall, we will see major layoffs in 2015. I think we are in a very good position and she will be able to continue to be successful. At the same time I know that we have to manage profits, so nobody should feel safe today... — read more