Chevron always take so long to execute reorganization. They have a history of deciding they need change then take 2-3 years to execute the supposed cost savings. These periods of uncertainty lead to low productivity. If you are going to make changes, simply get it done quicker for the better of the employees and the company. Maybe consider pushing out senior leaders that cannot make decisions as part of the process!
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1980s was brutal for O&G. So much that early 90s til 2008 was a golden age of opportunity for O&G. Excellent pay, opportunities if you worked hard and played by the rules, travel and expat assignments if you were willing to go. After that the layoff cycles started every 5ish years.
Houston was so cheap back then, and the O&G pay premium over other industries was great. You could get a brand new Texas sized McMansion for $250k. Insurance was a fraction of what it was today. O&G engineers made as much as medical doctors back in that era.
@aq are they in O&G? Perhaps you should go work there? O&G always has reorgs like this. Get used to it or think about another career.
"So happy" That my Saturday consists of trolling the layoff site, oooooh. I wanna be you!
@d3+ Left in 2020 and so very happy to be gone!
If ya don’t like it, leave… I love it here, best job ever!
They’re being “agile”. HAHAHAHAHA
could be worse. look at meta
Once this is announced, it will go quickly. And then you’re gunna wish that you still had more time
It’s because Chevron Leadership is still stuck in the waterfall mentality (a.k.a CPDP) when it comes to re-orgs.
I joined Chevron in 2013 as experienced hire from financial sector and survived several ROMs while at Chevron. In financial sector they were called RIFs, Reduction In Force! As soon as a RIF was announced to Wall Street, the shot clocked started and it was a matter of a month or two for re-org to be implemented. You were just hoping to find a chair, once music stopped.
I saw the train wreck coming from year along functional transformation in 2020 and took the package. It bought enough time to land somewhere better.
Company run by mo--ns
No serious business is run like this. Not one of my friends’ companies constantly reorgs like this.
Maybe they should try using agile and getting a few more product owners and having some more daily standups
It took about a year in 2020 from announcement to implementation.
ABU started planning for a re-org at the beginning of 2024. But it was put on hold due to ENGINE and the bigger org changes announced.
ENGINE and other changes were announced mid August 2024, so we a six months in to it being common knowledge. Undoubtedly the planning started at least six months before the announcement.
That means that, out of the past five years, probably at least two to three of those years has been spent with the workforce either in limbo awaiting information, or trying to implement the new structure.
And our senior leadership thinks it’s the peons at the coal face that need to execute faster? Maybe they should try using agile and getting a few more product owners and having some more daily standups?