A lot of people are pushing working from home full time not just because of COVID but a more permanent arrangement. But do you realize companies including Exxon Mobil gather data and evaluate if these are positions that should be transportable to low cost countries. If the job can be done remote, it can be done remote anywhere in many cases.
And surely you know they are tracking your computer and phone usage to dyermine just how much you are actually work.
Just some thought.
Work from home???? XOM will skip this step and push Work from India, or BA, or KL or Curitiba. Much cheaper than paying Americans or Europeans or Canadians to work from home. Management cut internships in US because it intends to push more jobs to low cost service centers instead.
I think all old school companies like EM need to let go of stale paradigms like working from a cubicle from 8 - 6 everyday (or a fish bowl office if you kiss enough a$$)...no one is going to take that sh!t any more. I don't want to see you people everyday and I am sure you don't want to see me. So let's not. Let's invest our time in resources in constructive en devours, like renewable energy vs corporate palace overhead and I'll see you when I see you! (btw, I only turn my camera on for friends :-))
I hope the company tracks and records data.. Then they can see deez n^ts
@1bux I’m not saying that at all, although there are very few companies that fit that description.
What I am saying, is that I would expect “America first” types (again, mostly white Republican men) to like, uh, not send American jobs to places like Bangalore and Manila.
I’m also saying that middle managers are generally petty little tyrants, and have been screaming at the top of their lungs for return to the office so that they can maximize their control over their employee’s lives.
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“Many jobs at ExxonMobil are repeatable processes”
That goes to show how little you know about what other people than you do in this company.
If you would have been around enough to have any experience, you would know that in the ‘80s the oil industry has already savagely outsourced everything that can be outsourced. They’ve kept a core of experienced people only because they had to. But I guess you, just like our current “leadership”, are much smarter than the old ruthless bosses.
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Are you trying to say that companies run by Democratic women of color (whatever the latter means) do not ship American jobs oversees to maximize their profit?
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Experience and knowledge, not cheap labor, is one thing, remote working vs. on campus is something completely different. I don’t have any preference in the remote vs. on campus, although for mentoring it’s indeed crucial.
@OP US companies (run almost exclusively by white Republican men), have been sending jobs overseas for decades, long before the pandemic led to more people working from home. If you think coming to the office protects your job, think again, because it doesn’t and it never has.
The only people who want everyone in the office are the little pi-s-ant middle managers who have a pathological need to control other people.
I do agree that experience and knowledge are critical and you can be very good working remote pulling from this reservoir. But how are newer inexperience people gaining useful knowledge working remote over the last 2 years? And this does not even address the issue of mentoring, networking and developing personal relationships which contrary to what some may think in the day of social media is important.
If the job can be done on campus, it still could be done remotely. Me coming to campus doesn’t make the job any more secure to stay here either though. There’s been plenty of jobs that were campus based that moved to GBCs. So I get where you got your logic, but it’s just not really applicable.
Have you tried to run through your little brain that you aren’t the only human on earth who can learn your job? Do you realize how many people live in India and China? The smartest 10% of India is nearly half of the entire US population.
Many jobs at ExxonMobil are repeatable processes that should have been replaced by computer code years ago not an overpaid engineer or tech turning a crank mindlessly every month.
Have you tried to run through your little brain the complex thought that in order to do something, in the office or remote, you actually need the knowledge and experience to do it? If that didn’t already fry your brain, try something even more daring: not all of us are employed making widgets, so cheaper is not better. Maybe you should also get Darren, who seems to share your primitive thinking, and register for some online course on this topic to fulfill your Development Plan.
You don't think they weren't already doing that before COVID? The only different between an office building in Houston and an office building in Hyderabad is the rent cost. Don't let fear of offshoring let the company take advantage of you. They're going to offshore whether you work hard at home or work hard inside an office building.