Its all part of Aramco's "get cheap" policy. They have adopted the Exxon HR model. If you need an employee that costs X, hire two and pay them 50% of X. One will probably leave or be useless and get downsized, but then you have the other at 50% of the cost.
I quoted someone from one of the threads below because I totally agree. Aramco seems to be copying Exxon in everything that is not good?
You can't really expect anything else when you never have any original ideas and pay hired g-ns (major oil castoffs) to run your HR.
For functions that don't do anything besides PowerPoint, it won't matter other than to make morale even lower. For functions that actually matter (fewer of them these days) it will destroy them. Guys who make 50 percent comp doing the same job as the guy next to them are bound to be salty. Beings everyone down and they leave, mentally if not physically.
Yeah, we'll see how that works out, Inshallah...