Chevron has become such a benchmarking company and focused on following others that it seems to have forgotten how to think for itself. Now we’re adopting this outdated ‘hoteling’ concept, where desks are unassigned and there’s less workspace than people. How dehumanizing is that? We’re required to be in the office at least four days a week, yet our assigned offices and cubes are taken away. This leftover strategy from the hybrid work era makes no sense. Wake up, Chevron…
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Hoteling really shows people’s true colors. There’s one person who decorated “their” flex office and yells at anyone who sits there. They do not have a disability waiver. Most of the people who get in early get the places they prefer and everyone else battles for the ones with missing cables and broken keyboards.
@OP "Milton! No place to sit, have you? I'll tell you what. Why don't you down to the basement and take a seat there? Leave your red stapler for the unassigned saps here, and while you're down there, take care of the reports of basement ro--h infestation, will you?Good deal!"
We’ve been hot desking in SCM for a while. On the second week I got situated in my office and looked up to see a bloody booger on the glass about eye level. It was at that point that I realized that hot desking is a demoralization exercise.
@c9 LT spent 250MM to fit out lakeside. A space they knew they would abandon in 2 years. Think about the waste of money, time and focus. The executives made these decisions. This says so much about their ineptitude
@cf, well, fortunately for him, your opinion doesn't meant jack squat!
We started benchmarking everything except for the role of CEO. MW is well past mandatory retirement and older than all of competitor's CEOs. He's also the least educated. He's wholly unfit to lead.
Someone needs to ask BRES about the costs with this modernization fiasco. And now they’re shoving us into nameless seats for a feee for all and for what?
@a8 the difference is that, in Severance, they at least had assigned desks — and computers that actually worked. Plus, they could forget about the shitstorm every night, and had comparatively competent managers who rewarded results.
I’ll take my Lumon-issued computer and a waffle party any day over whatever CVX are serving up.
@OP They'll change their tune when the RSI injury rates start to climb and the claims against the company's self funded medical plan begin to take their toll. All the sudden we'll get our own workstations back. Get Hoteled? Then start mentioning the neck, back, and wrist pains to your supervisor. They'll catch on.
If you want the leeway to do things differently, show that you can deliver better (or at least the same) outcomes as your peers. Until then, you'll be expected to follow.
And for those that don't follow, Chevron has been a laggard by just about any measure (unit G&A, unit LOE, capital costs, discovered resource).
Hotels can be fun, hehe.
@b7 A fu---n outdoor makeshift temp office with full connectivity could have been achieved for much less than the egregious millions that they spent on this modernization joke. What did they do with all the $$?? One can only wonder.
Chevron has always been a business and they have never “cared” about us as employees. But as recently as 3-5 years ago they at least PRETENDED and kept up a facade of empathy and touting work/life balance. I don’t mind being lied to if everyone is in on the lie. But they have given up any semblance of justification or kindness and it is “we are succumbing to industry peer pressure. We don’t NEED to tell you a better reason, do exactly what we say and shut up”. I will keep cashing the checks, but it’s a new low for us for sure.
Exactly. The more they explain it’s about the ‘employee experience’ or ‘neighborhoods’ as a way to make it sound like it’s a good thing, the worse it is. Just give us an office, a cube, a desk even that we can go to, put a few things in and set up the way we need. Plus then we can actually find our colleagues bc everyone’s not in different places every 3 hours. A colossal waste of money, productivity and morale.
Going to be funny when Supervisors and HR start receiving all kinds of special requests, medical conditions, disabilities, etc. that require people to be able to work from home or have a private office space. They’ll be forced to accommodate, which will drive everyone else even more crazy.
Very “Severance” feel.
My friend over in comms said Laura Lane said “no” to hot-desking and told them all to find a space and own it. Put their names on it and move in. Apparently this backfired some because people who were out of town were left without a desk upon returning. Regardless at least they have a leader who is willing to recognize that this new system su-ks and do something about it.
"Wake up, Chevron…" This is all by design, it is about time that those, not left standing and left standing, drank some coffee and woke up.