As CVX price and bbl go up with the multiple conflicts, will that save us from additional layoffs?
Or is this short term?
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The plan is to maximize profits. The next 5 year layoff plan is already in the works. Have your own plan to be elsewhere within in 3 years and you have nothing to worry about.
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor worldwide conflict will prevent MW from his quest to destroy CVX.
Layoffs have nothing to do with the profitability or viability of the business.
If layoffs are a path to even more profit, then layoffs will come.
Layoffs aren't seen as bad or a sign of failure by executives or investors. Quite the opposite! They interpret human misery as "leadership", "progress", and "making hard decisions" and so on. They will happen regardless of financial outcomes for exactly that reason. Prepare accordingly.
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This is MW you are talking about. He always has layoffs on his brain.
There is no connection, it will have zero affect on future layoffs. Oil prices are a non-controllable variable that fluctuates in the short term. Labor is a controllable Opex that affects longer term costs that management wants to minimize.