Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Just monitor the Texas Warren Act (WARN) website for the next round of 2021 layoffs

https://www.twc.texas.gov/businesses/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-notices

LAYOFF ANNOUCEMENT - 12/2/2021, LAYOFF DATE 2/2/2021)
12/2/2020 Campus - 677
12/2/2020 Hughes Landing - 35
12/2/2020 Hughes Landing - 10
Total 722 reported to the State of Texas based on an expected 1900 staff reduction for Houston

https://www.aminext.com/blog/2020/7/9/am-i-next-no-love-at-exxonmobil

DECEMBER 11, 2020 — COMPANY ANNOUNCES FIRST LAYOFFS
The company has announced that 700 of the 1,900 layoffs will commence February 2, 2021, per a filing with the State of Texas.

OCTOBER 29, 2020 — 1,900 EMPLOYEES TARGETED, MOSTLY CORPORATE EMPLOYEES IN HOUSTON, TEXAS

The company has released a statement noting, “As part of an extensive global review announced earlier this year, the company plans to reduce staffing levels in the United States, primarily at its management offices in Houston, Texas. The company anticipates approximately 1,900 employees will be affected through voluntary and involuntary programs.”

“The workforce reductions are the result of ongoing reorganizations and work-process changes that have been made over the past several years to improve efficiency and reduce costs. These actions will improve the company’s long-term cost competitiveness and ensure the company manages through the current unprecedented market conditions. The impact of COVID-19 on the demand for ExxonMobil’s products has increased the urgency of the ongoing efficiency work.”

”The company recognizes these decisions will impact employees and their families and has put these programs in place only after comprehensive evaluation and thoughtful deliberation. Employees who are separated through involuntary programs will be provided with support, including severance and outplacement services.”

OCTOBER 21, 2020 — A MAJOR REDUCTION IN FORCE IS COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
According to a company spokesperson, "We are very close to completing the jobs review. Details will be forthcoming soon after the company's board of directors is informed. "I wish I could say we were finished, but we are not. We still have some significant headwinds, more work to do and, unfortunately, further reductions are necessary."

JULY 9, 2020 — Original post…
Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corporation, the largest oil and gas company in the United States, has announced a reduction in force among its domestic employees. The cuts are estimated to be between 5% and 10% of the workforce. The company will also divest some under-performing or troublesome assets.

An unofficial spokesperson has noted that the cuts will be based on performance and individual employee reviews.

The decision was driven by the travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the price wars playing out in the oil and gas marketplace.

The news may come as a surprise to some because Exxon responded to a May 2020 announcement that rival Chevron was making cuts and Exxon claimed they had no such plans. Exxon Darren Woods explained that the company was prepared to cut operating expenses by 15% that the cuts did not affect employees. “As you all know, we work hard to avoid layoffs. Today, we have no layoff plans.”

Of course, cuts based on performance reviews are not considered layoffs, but terminations and will affect those who normally receive performance reviews -- mainly managers, technical personnel, and support workers.

There may also be some consideration of pending climate change lawsuits which will be expensive to defend and expensive to settle.

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?

Other “Big Oil” companies are being transparent and calling their reductions layoffs and providing 3–4 weeks of pay for every year of service. Not using a bogus PIP charade and giving longterm employees nothing more than a boot out the door.

Not the same company it used to be, and it starts at the very top.

2022 – 60K

Just write an email to DW or TG and they tell you the #s and also share the plan.

Similar Trend?

Ford Motor Annual Number of Employees
2020 186,000
2019 190,000
2018 199,000
2017 202,000
2016 201,000
2015 199,000
2014 187,000
2013 181,000
2012 171,000
2011 164,000
2010 164,000
2009 198,000
2008 213,000
2007 246,000
2006 283,000
2005 300,000

Do not forget the sales of Montgomery Wards, Reliance Electric and coal and cooper mines in Wyoming, Illinois, colombia, Peru, Australia. Sold off Japanese refineries also

Exxon’s total reduction will affect about 14,000 people, split between employees and contractors, spokesman Casey Norton said by email. The cuts will come through attrition, targeted redundancy programs in 2021, and scaled-back hiring in some countries.

By Bloomberg Wire
10:44 AM on Oct 29, 2020

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2020/10/29/exxon-mobil-to-eliminate-1900-jobs-primarily-in-the-houston-area/

Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. will slash its global workforce by 15% over the next two years, an unprecedented culling by North America’s biggest oil explorer as it struggles to preserve dividends.

The cuts will include 1,900 U.S. jobs, mostly in Houston, as well as reductions in contractors and layoffs previously announced in Europe and Australia. Personnel reductions are Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods’s latest effort to curtail spending and halt the worst string of quarterly losses since Exxon assumed its modern form with the 1999 takeover of Mobil Corp.

Exxon’s total reduction will affect about 14,000 people, split between employees and contractors, spokesman Casey Norton said by email. The cuts will come through attrition, targeted redundancy programs in 2021, and scaled-back hiring in some countries.

Exxon’s Big Oil rivals are also cutting thousands of jobs in response to the pandemic-induced demand slump. BP Plc plans to slash 10,000 jobs, Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut as many as 9,000 roles and Chevron Corp. has announced around 6,000 reductions.

Exxon’s workforce stood at about 88,000 people, including 75,000 in-house employees and the rest comprised of contractors, as of year-end 2019, Norton said.

India is flourishing

Oh this can’t be true! The current employees are the only ones to have ever suffered from a workforce reduction! This must be company bot or HR propaganda?

Combined Exxon and Mobil employees in 1980’s was close to 400,000. Different time. Different businesses. But all of those people had families to feed too. In the early 2000’s, you can see the purge of hMobil employees. And those were great times compared to Covid economy. And how many of those employees let go or retired had a special package? Close to none. Doesn’t make PiP right, but historical context. Now tell us how today is different and you are special.

It would be interesting to compare the total staff reduction in EU and North America compared to the staff increases in India, Brazil, and Argentina.