"We believe a bottom-up assessment is the right approach for our business and employees.
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Interesting. Chevron did Top Down with a total re-org. Eliminated a lot of vp’s, gm’s, and managers. Still eliminated a lot at the lower ranks, but more emphasis on flattening and consolidating the org.
@chf+17zat1wY they don't care if something bad happens they will find a scapegoat and fire them. They are going to. Offshore jobs supporting sites no matter how stupid it is. Because the people proposing the solution have their careers on the line.
@gdr+17zat1wY is spot on. How is someone on the other side of the world in KL going to help run a refinery or chemical plant they have never set foot in? Our management is going nuts moving vital jobs to the cheap locations. They are taking more risk than they will admit.
Every time their is a fire or explosion in one of our plants we are buried under negative media coverage and the local community comes out against us. Now imagine what will happen when they find out that a fire or explosion was caused because we offshored plant technical support and engineering to Malaysia! People will become enraged. Government entities, (federal, state and local), politicians, community leaders, and local residents will be furious when they find out that their local environment and the safety of their community was endangered by EM moving vital jobs to a low cost country. Just wait for the headlines. And the lawsuits!
@gdr+17zat1wY is spot on. How is someone on the other side of the world in KL going to help run a refinery or chemical plant they have never set foot in? Our management is going nuts moving vital jobs to the cheap locations. They are taking more risk than they will admit.
Every time their is a fire or explosion in one of our plants we are buried under negative media coverage and the local community comes out against us. Now imagine what will happen when they find out that a fire or explosion was caused because we offshored plant technical support and engineering to Malaysia! People will become enraged. Government entities, (federal, state and local), politicians, community leaders, and local residents will be furious when they find out that their local environment and the safety of their community was endangered by EM moving vital jobs to a low cost country. Just wait for the headlines. And the lawsuits!
When you’re at the top, you never suggest starting at the top I guess.
Bottoms up simply means the business units tell management how many people they need - top down management telling them how many to fire.
He said one focus is to eliminate unnecessary work and become more nimble, in other words tighten up and work smarter. Don’t need as many people when projects are cut and unnecessary work is eliminated.
It means bend over
Previous posts were hammer meeting nail. All the job cuts and additional PIPoffs will be taken out on individual contributors, just as Round 1 was, while the bloated ranks of mostly worthless managers and supervisors are spared because they protect their own. There are many very highly compensated managers that could be replaced by their admins on 98% of their tasks. That contribute absolutely nothing of value, but are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just for showing up on campus every day.
Typical EM way - fire 100 employees who actually do the work, rather than sack one senior manager. Considering the numbers they’re proposing, the company is going to find its remaining knowledge and experience stretched very thin
Really? Again? Go back to you high school or college newspaper and leave us adults to deal with these serious issues about our livelihoods.
It sounds like where you find out what the business needs are from the bottom up.
Except that in real life the layoff decisions are being made by a handful of people at the very top. We’re going to lay off 20% of the company without changing any of our Byzantine processes, making the little actual work getting done grind to a halt. They have no clue what positions are necessary anywhere.
I’ve got news for Darren - the folks in Malaysia don’t know how to support our plants. You can fire all my contact engineers, and all you’re going to get is lower salary expenses. Nobody will be around when stuff goes bump in the night. Nobody will be around to walk the unit and verify that - surprise surprise - the drawing was wrong. Nobody will be able to sit with the grizzled process lead to understand the finer points of how things work. BUT! You will get lots of emails saying stuff like, “I noticed that this flow rate was fluctuating. Do you have any idea what it could be.” — Literally what I get in my inbox most days from KLTC.