I am hearing rumblings that Chevron is about to hire a great deal of people for the expected demand that is coming. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but this will just lead to more layoffs in the future?? I mean I have co workers who have said they go to other teams to find work that they can be apart of…
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Ramp up hiring? The reality is Chevron could cut 30% of current employees and still do just fine! Most of the real work is done by consultants and other vendors. My Chevron engineering friends don't do any engineering work.
Hiring in SJV
BO-M? Just saw the post we are selling Permian assets!! LOL
OP: Now correct me if I’m wrong, but this will just lead to more layoffs in the future??
This is an oil and gas company. You can count on layoffs with the cycles of the industry. Just deal with it as part of the gig.
I've lived through several re-orgs and I am grasping at how they thought this could be better than the last several transformations.
Herr, durr, "The business wants us to transform"
No, the business is tired of the endless churn of people, intake points, and processes that promise to simplify, but end up adding additional complexities. The business would also like to talk to someone they can freaking understand on the phone.
OP,
LOL!
From an experienced petrotech who has lived the past, and can see the future: If there's a hiring frenzy, it will be predominantly PEs, maybe FEs, not Geo-types. Geo-types not current on geostatistics, AI, ML, and basic engineering practices will slowly fade away in the next decade, just as paleontologists and gravity/mag types did in the last 20 years. Pure explorationists' days are numbered, only a role in reservoir management and/or UCR will save you for a while.
Yes in CTC: removed one layer of management but add 10 more on the side (scrum masters, product owner and technical product owners are just the tip of the new bureaucratic nightmare). SaFE agile should never be confused with flexible, innovative, or efficient… only managerial masterbation, contrived pontification, and artificial self congratulation.
No, because all this digital wonder magic means we don’t need people.
Fake news, they already knew there will be another bo-m around the corner when they went through transformstion. It will get leaner and leaner under current leadership, not the other way around.
Will probably hire consultants then layoff when the activity drops off again.