https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Exxon-and-Chevron-Expand-Global-Hiring-Push.html
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CVX did it because CVX’s idea of innovation is “what does Exxon do” while McKinsey checks for monsters under their CEO’s bed!
Yeah except it’ll be more messy and aggravating
Lock up the labor market for an acquisition of all global convenience stores.
Obviously XOM and CVX are hiring up low-paying positions to be filled by low-skilled barely-numerate keyboard operators who are directed by US-based experts and supported by AI. These offshoring initiatives are as much an effort to provide the manpower to support and implement AI initiatives so XOM and CVX can flout AI adoption to their institutional investors. But even the better AIs, like Micr*s, are overhyped by their customers because their own management has pushed down the directive to get with the program. No AI-deniers allowed.
In the past up to the present, there has been a language barrier even for English speakers that limits them to mostly numbers and not so much words and to very little that requires technical knowledge. But maybe the mirage of LLM will surmount the language barrier. But seriously who cares as long as the market buys into it?
Some new offshored jobs will be IT for people skilled in keeping you on hold and looking up answers on community message boards. The comment below about the scammers is not an exaggeration. I have seen experienced it with De** and H**. Information provided by customers ended up in the hands of scam callers. And that's the culture they're pouring their sensitive highly mobile data into.
The immediate political climate would seem to make the offshoring of job functions foolish. The incoming administration took draconian measures 7 years to stop the bleeding in the US service sector and the current administration tried but failed to make these measures even tougher. Maybe Big Oil can sell offshoring politically as needed to support domestic energy production, reduce costs, reduce the inflationary aspects of high energy costs, and cut the visa filings. The USCIS is already slow-walking visa approvals. If XOM/CVX staff up now, they can snap up the slightly less-bad workers first. But what will happen is they constantly job hop, competitive wage rates rise, but you keep having to hire lower skilled worker.
I guess XOM and CVX are almost as stupid as Shell. Except they didn't sell all their upstream and processing assets just to get invited to the better parties in Davos.
60% of india practices open defecation
remember when they were “going to be a super power” by 2020
as soon as wages go up there they’ll be tossed aside
Bangalore will be the next Seoul of 2030.