If Career Connect, AI, outsourcing, rankings, and reorgs are all wildly successful, what does the ideal Exxon employee of 2035 actually look like?
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It will have a shiny metal exoskeleton and a human-like affect
@bc there is a problem with your analysis. You say all companies optimize employee compensation by lowering it. Are executives not employees? How do you explain the soaring executive compensation? Greed
DW has 4 more years. Then his predecessor is going to need at least 1 year to settle and start ‘scratching’ at things. The ship’s not turning in that time, absent something cataclysmic like an iceberg….which, yes, everyone is trying to avoid.
But outsourcing and aggressive headcount reduction is DWs ‘stamp.’ The next CEO is going to want to find their own ‘stamp’ to put on the company; it won’t be the same. No CEO lives in the shadow of their predecessor….too much ego involved.
So at the 5 year mark, the outsourcing/reductions are either in equilibrium and sustainable…..or are in conflict with the next set of goals and slowly get unwound.
In these 5 years, the most pragmatic approach is to keep an eye out for the ‘new guy’ and try to influence them. They are more accessible and open minded at this stage….but we’ll all still need to wait and those 5 years.
2035 is irrelevant. The big rock hits in late 2029. Wonder why real life is increasingly looking like a parody? Those who know and can are selling off whatever they can to purchase one of the limited number of tickets to off-world.
Bozo’s unfortunate incident last night just cut the number of seats, making the remaining ones more expensive.
@bc, talking about missing the point! We, the employees who actually run this thing know how d-mb and destructive this path is, so we speak out. We act in a conscientious manner. Still “mystified”? Then we have all of us who invested our careers and our families’ futures in this company, only to be on the wrong side of a bait and switch scheme. So we speak out. You seem to want to live in a world where power rules unconstrained by decency and common sense. Are we supposed to wait for the train wreck so you can gloat and say I told you so?
@OP Ideally, they don’t exist at all. That’s what executives are driving at with these strategies.
Malfunctioning robot cobbled together from salvaged spare parts
A Novel Laureate who wants to work at a Burger King salary.
I don’t get this post or the mysticism about employee-employer relationships. Every employer wants the best employee for the cheapest price. Optimization is trimming salary and benefits until too many people start to leave.
Maybe the rub is that companies used to value stability and loyalty in the things they ‘paid’ for. The equation was the same, but their definition of ‘too many people leaving’ was a much lower number.
Right now, Exxon has decided that they want to ‘discover’ the cost of change. They clearly think they need to go down this road, and it probably takes another 5 years before they get their answer. Right now, it is in the ‘honeymoon’ phase where investors love the idea. If you want to see it through, you are waiting for the ‘Seven Years of Marriage’ phase where most divorces and affairs happen. Sorry but this is the truth.
Unemployed.