20% of the workforce has applied for the voluntary severance package. 15% had the chance to get it. In the meantime 5% has also already resigned this year outside of the layoff scheme.
So we are at -20% with an additional 5% having given their intention to leave at the first the best occasion .... and the employees remaining get more work for the same pay check ...
At this rate we can close the shop in 4 years ... by 2025 ... but I thought Darren's plan was to close it after 2030...
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It is not because one works in Brussels that one is an expat; also lots of Belgians there!! And yes, also expats, which we do not need: Belgians are just as capable (if not more so) as the expensive just-passing-through-expats.
Vacation days: the legal minimum of 20 legal days plus 24 days compensation for working more hours per day and per week than defined by labour laws.
Belgians are still among the most productive workers in the world.
How is any of this an insult to other affiliates? Jealousy speaking?
Fact remains that Bxl and EU employees work more with their 40 days of vacation then Houston employees with 0. US employees just blablabla a lot and don't carry a high workload. If XOM sheds more of these people it will go down the drain even quicker, and without doubt.
Even DW himself might be paying taxes soon.
It's falling apart here.
Europe does not need EM and really never did.
Even the gulf royalty has no need for it.
Other than TX, who needs it?
and... really thinking now... TX got privatized Nasa and lectric cars.
Only the lubes at this point. Keeping us regular.
Truth is nutty to the lost.
Seriously nutty comments. You all are sinking one tier lower the echelons of human civility. Hope I don’t work with any of you.
Who cares about Brussels, another waste of an organization that nothing except feed expat spies to the USA for Woods and the god pod and soak up lavish benefits, salary, bonus and collect 8 to 10 weeks of the vacation in the process. The rest of the organization supports a socialist/communist regime called the EU with aging and worthless and profit less ExxonMobil refineries and S&D supply chains. A complete drag on XOM business and too worthless to sell and will be idled and abandoned in the coming years.
A skeleton workforce to keep running EMPC and perhaps some puppets needed for lobbying the EU institutions. Other than that I don't see the need to have so many roles based in Brussels. I agree with poster saying that this is not a site where attrition is entirely regretted by the Company.
What are the source for these stats?
Brussels does not seem like a place that HQ is intending to “survive” cuts in Europe, just like Leatherhead in Upstream. If it’s not an operating site, or Budapest/Prague they likely don’t really care about attrition or are even encouraging it.
Did anyone factor in the 8% NSI. Assuming half of those folks decided to leave, will that translate to another incremental 4% of departure - putting attrition closer to 25% instead or it’s already factored into OP’s 5%.
Attrition is still low at this kind of levels. It’s not as though Brussels ain’t functioning? The fact that business continues to do well, means that these are efficiencies we should have undertaken long ago! We are competing to Win! Hurray!
I don’t begrudge anyone their benefits package which is set per local norms.
Most places have a high level of employees who are showing up but are no longer loyal due to actions taken by management. Many looking to jump at first opportunity.
At least you have travelled until now in the first class wagon and please don't tell me that only the best of the best worked in the HQ. The 40 days of vacation per year granted to Belgian employees has been an insult to other affiliates.