I'm a representative for the company. I'd like to know how we can be better? Why are so many leaving? Instead of ranting I'd kindly ask for true and constructive feedback. What solutions need to be implemented?
What part of the buisness is having these issues? Is it in the UK or in America? What needs to change?
Make sure leadership respects the employees. Sat down with a VP and had him laugh in my face while sharing concerns. Then told to shut up and do my job because it's what we are paid to do. HR is just as bad, Opentalk is useless. As a younger employee this is why you lose talent under 30, because the lack of respect.
Today’s share price is exactly as it was in 1997. That’s how you beat inflation
I worked here for a while, it was completely driven by fear. I think they are now 4 years or so into this transition narrative and delivered zero shareholder increases. That’s on top of spinning the wheels for the previous 20 years and delivering no shareholder growth. The common thread is the board and the exec team
After more than 20 years service I was in a relatively senior position with absolutely fantastic feedback and support from a series of teams that I led. However, I was squeezed and effectively bullied by my VPs and elected to leave with a generous package in my back pocket. Suffice to say those very same executive staff were themselves terminated shortly afterwards but the damage was done. The teams have never really recovered and many of my original reports have also left. Key issues: promotions related to advocacy and a warped D&I agenda; a supine and Machiavellian HR department; lack of trust; bloated and over-promoted central functions - many/most of which are non-revenue generating. All evidenced in the market by terrible share price performance - I'm just waiting for my stock awards to work through vesting.
Anonymous representative of the company, do you have any power to implement suggestions made here? Show up to any town hall and you'll hear the same suggestions and comments over and over that get ignored, but if you can really help here's the biggest thing: Bring back the flex Fridays. That's 26 days BP took away and didn't replace with anything. My peers at other companies ask me why I stay there when the benefits have diminished, the pay is average to below average, and the stock performance is the worst in the industry. I often leave meetings with coworkers muttering in the hallways about how they need to start looking for a job at another company, and others actively are.
My 15 year experience has been to see the company focused on everything but the business and safety. Employees wanting a productive and meaningful career have left and are leaving. My last two years at BP in a senior role were terrible. The senior leaders were bullies and were closed to employee's suggestions. I am female and was disgusted by women being promoted to jobs not because of their skills but because they were female and knew how to play the D&I game.
Contractors. They are everywhere and their opinions mean more than BP staff. Oh and I&E is an absolute train wreck which is only going to get worse with its new appointees
As a relative newbie of 3 years, there are many people who need to leave.
Let them. Encourage them.
Stop bringing in people from OnG who don't NEED to be in OnG. Get some fresh brain cells.
The entire exec team suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Not a great trait for a public company
Start evaluating BP leadership for what they do instead of what they say
The two individuals with the most control over BP’s future have demonstrated complete and utter ethical failures in their personal lives. BP has paid for glowing articles to be written profiling them and has covered up their personal indiscretions, which are completely obvious to everyone within the company that has been around.
This behavior filters throughout the entire company resulting in a culture that is shallow and inauthentic.
Change the leaders , change the culture
But that will never happen so best to just leave
Reading this post from a “representative of the company” just shows how ###### this company is. They have no idea that just about every aspect of their agenda has destroyed this company yet they keep doubling down on the same mistakes. The stock price is a good indicator of what intelligent people think of this management teams agenda.
Read the DEI report. That’ll tell you
I've personally found the line between consultants and green badged staff has blurred significantly in recent years. Consequently BP has become a less appealing place to work for salaried staff looking for a long term career (few training or development opportunities, reduced benefits, increased workloads, unpaid & expected work during weekends as the norm not the exception). Consequently, some staff (like myself) are leaving because the company is not supplying what they are looking for. That said, many day rate consultants I work with are happy with their roles and are making out like bandits (chaos creates cash). It all depends on what you are looking for.
I don't work there but the best advice, by far, I could give is this:
Whatever everyone else in the F500 is doing, if you do it too, immediately stop doing the same thing.
Take another pulse survey, they've always been such a successful barometer of how employees are feeling, right? If you are honestly looking for answers on a public message board rather then asking your existing employees, this speaks volumes as to how disconnected leadership is from the people actually doing the work. Glad I left when I did.