Seems like management want to reduce this as its high compared to competitors...why do we have such a high number? Do we have too many subsurface and engineers compared to competitors?
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We have far too much process and far too many people because of it. They could half the head count and the oil would still be produced.
Problem is there is no external hiring really and the shell lifers don’t know anything else do think the processes help.
Many, many people sitting around in the Hague and Rotterdam doing -absolutely nothing-. And laughing/joking about it!!
There are a few issues in regards to Shells population. One thing that puzzles me is that we wait till reorgs to get rid of deadweight.
It’ll be the same as it always is. The people making the decisions are managers, do you really think they are going to cut themselves? They will shed a few of them, but the majority of the cuts will come from the rank and file, especially JG2s without direct reports.
I really think the management structure from EC -3 should be slashed. They always hit the jg3 and below, but these are the only people that do the grunt work especially in development/engineering and I guess the same in subsurface, save a few technical jg2's. Too many high fliers that are glorified project managers...get rid of these nonsense roles and get back to pure technical!
I have heard subsurface and development will be slashed 20%...if you believe the water cooler chat!
A bunch of Dutch people sitting around doing fu-k all
IDT added loads of employees in the recent year in the name of low carbon or new energy developments. Where there is no real business development yet. Many of the IDT functions can easily be outsourced including IDE, IDA architecture teams.
Who are all these people? definitely are not subsurface or engineers...they have been actively not backfilling jobs in these fields.
correct number is 103,000 at the end 2023. it was 93,000 end 2022 and 83,000 end 2021. staff count went up by 20k in 2 years. impressive.