What are your thoughts on WFH?
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There are few from these other companies mentioned with the technical skills that would be useful to us. They must be engineering, math, science, or physics oriented to be of any real use.
The comment below is a great way to not get anyone from my generation to go into oil and gas. You need to retire already boomer your old and your ideas are as Jurassic as you are!
No WFH just because of Amazon or Microsoft. We do not compete for the same workforce as these guys. It is the other oil companies that we compete with. IT people are a dime a dozen now and are really quite overrated. They are a service organization unless they are into big data analysis or modeling work.
Work from home needs to stay. Oxy needs to be able to compete with companies like amazon and Microsoft that offer this flexibility.
WFH is great and if you are able to be productive why not keep it as long as you keep producing or bettering the results? My take is WFH 2-3 days a week and combine f2f meetings with the remaining days in office. I can’t understand how anyone can hate it unless you are physically needed to turn knobs and push buttons.
I get my infectious disease advice from Wannabe O&G podcast hosts, not medical experts. Now get back to the office!
That is a great idea! We need more ideas like that to help with the transition to the new way of working.
I have to say it is nice. The one thing that is a little hard is training a new employee over Teams. The technology is there, but one on one time for at least the first few weeks would work best. Maybe a few weeks in the office for training up front would make it easier.
Work from home works great and everyone can do just as much as in the office just without the stress of a 2 hour commute. To the anti work from home guy, get a life. Everyone is tired of your pointless rants. Oxy gave the option so those that want to go into the office can. Stop worrying about everyone else you have the option.
People who don’t work while WFH aren’t any more productive if in the office. It’s just their nature and it’s up to managers to stay on top of this no matter where they are.
The author of the previous five posts needs to get a job and get off this website. Micro-managing is so prevalent at Oxy that it would be impossible to get away with "not working" for a significant length of time.
The modern technology called email has made it possible for technical know nothing people to appear like they are contributing. We used to call them b—s— artists. And if the management chain is not smart you have problems.
So totally correct.
The people who don't work are a drag on the people who do work and want to be employed around others who take their employment seriously and with integrity.
The biggest problem from an HR perspective in the oil industry is that compared to the capital and operating costs employee payroll is so small. Therefore whether people work or don’t work is not even visible. It is literally an industry of a bunch of spoiled people at the corporate white collar level.
Some people are lazy and don’t work.
Next question.
The work gets done and the company makes money.
Next question.
Working from home is not for everyone and not for all organizations.