I heard from friends at BP and Oxy that their company is going to flexible schedules. So they work from home 2 days a week and still keep 9/80. Will our HR ever consider adopt to this type of step to better work/life balance?
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COP never has any original ideas of their own. They just copied BP's remote work policy. This will not slow down the attrition rate when people are finding jobs that are 100% remote, and with more pay! What I don't understand is why we have to wait until July 1 for it to be implemented. There is no valid reason as to make us wait. Well... I guess our leadership knows what they're doing as they stated in emails!
The Leading Edge video on The Mark states exactly this. Going to a hybrid working model with some core in office days and some flexible home days. No mention of impact to 9/80s.
It is likely there are more people willing to work for less if they don’t have to commute. Salary reductions will not happen but raises and bonuses will not escalate. This is just simple economic theory. Remember for non-executives they pay you just enough to keep you there and not a penny more.
What the executives aren’t telling you is the hybrid schedule is only temporary until covid is over. By next year the work schedule will be back to pre-covid. Those that don’t like it can quit or get fired.
Chevron here. Just was announced that we are going to 3 on site/ 2 wfh structure while maintaining 9/80’s and 4/10’s. Good luck all.
That is 100% true!
COP sucks, but Oxy sucks more. Never work for Oxy.
COP will never lead or transform their culture to attract the best of the best, they are just to closed minded..........I'm retired now and I worked for them 20 plus years. During COVID I was able to produce more and get more work done than ever, and my health and well being improved as well. The commute in the Houston enviroment does cause chronic fatigue, and providing a flex schedule would be a game changer for employee attraction........I would bet most would work for less if this were part of the compensation package.
The most Flexible work schedule is to be laid off.
Fully flexible to do what you want when you want and seek work however you feel.
COP has done a lot to push this new people centric model vision of the future out to the masses and the results are staggering.
Fake news post – BP is eliminating 9/80 starting in July because it’s not fair office workers to have it when field workers can’t have it...
@1imo+1atkKaL5 COP still is convinced you “find oil” in the shale fields lol. It’s there already, just need to be efficient at getting it out of the ground which is what COP has never been very good at.
Rewarding good work? And finding oil? There is is no finding in the unconventionals. Just implementation and we’re not good at that either. Stay at home or go to the office. The results will be much the same. 70% of the non–operational folk need to go.
Does anyone else find it ironic to see a message about flex schedules when (1) COP just laid off hundreds of people and (2) if you haven’t noticed, the company isn’t doing so well?
The bosses dont have to give you squat. They know most people who work here dont have marketable skills and cant go anywhere else. Its their way or the highway.
The micro–managing control freaks don’t trust you and imagine you at home not working when they can’t monitor/watch you. Never.
Nope
Haha we follow when every other oil company has implemented anything. May it be exploration or compensation or anything else. It’s not what we do, it’s how we do it !
Not as long as the old guard is in charge. They’re partying like it’s 1999 and refuse to adapt to them new fangled ideas like flex schedules and rewarding good work and finding oil.
It’s not up to HR. They actually have this schedule now. At least some do.
Maybe if you ask it a 3rd time, someone will answer you?