Thread regarding ConocoPhillips layoffs

New Hires

I don’t understand why they hired so many new hires in 2020. Wouldn’t it have made sense to hold off...

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We have an entire HR group that needs to justify their existence by recruiting and hiring. It’s all about the optics.

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Post ID: @1dyf+19eaArfw

There will always be hiring, and there will always be firing. Just the way it works. Envision a room of limited size. A new, lower cost person gets jammed into the room through the door on one side, and an experienced, more costly person gets pushed out the other door.

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Post ID: @wcr+19eaArfw

We do this every time. You answered your own question, it would have made sense. It’s not who we are.

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Post ID: @elh+19eaArfw

Commitments to 2020 new hires were made in 2019

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