Because Exxon doesn't care about PDA usage when negotiating the sale price, only the headcount.
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Because they never really made the cuts in headcount that they needed to at the split and that is happening now.
Good question ironically. No profit and in turn no profit sharing. Innovations associated with technology reduce cost -- BYOD, cloud, Office 365. The overwhelming issue is the cash flow, or lack of. Since the split the company has sold $15 billion of assets. Q1 2015 financials were the result of $2.5 billion additional debt. Money going out the door in 2015 will be $8-10 billion more than money coming in the door via production. The asset sales and debt are to keep the lights on... The cost saving measures are expected to save $1 billion. Every barrel produced is a loss to the company but without every barrel produced the debt cannot be serviced. The banks now have the upper hand, not the shareholders.