Sigh - what’s left to reorg? Why?
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The factory model only works while it works. After that you need true engineers. You can’t just replace them because the real engineer told you ten years ago to do it this way in these cases. What happens when the cases change.
Have any of you here actually worked for a different company? Or do business with other operators in the Permian? The problems you refer to in your post (that don’t really have anything to do with a reorg) are problems many other companies deal with, in Midland and Houston.
Your argument is that while we’ve all proven we can work from home during the last 19 months, we haven’t proven we can work from two locations? Chevron has been split between two locations since the Texaco merger. And I’d say we’ve performed well in that time. Your argument is nonsensical.
The SBU should be co-located close to where the operations are and where the business in the Permian is done which is in Midland, not Houston. Efficiencies from having people closely located, talking face to face across the full value chain, interacting and building relationships internally within the SBU and with other Permian companies, reduced commuting times/travel, separation from centralized overhead etc etc etc will obviously create value. Sure, we will lose some people but not those that love their job and there are many talented people in Midland that would jump to join Chevron. The negligible reduction from people who would not relocate could actually create opportunity to further optimize a still over-staffed organization. It does not take an irreplaceable skill set to work in a factory so people should not overestimate their value. Many graduates would jump at an opportunity to work for Chevron in Midland and quickly get up to speed on the job. This post may be unpopular but our competitiveness depends on value and retaining people who like what they do, are flexible and want to work for Chevron rather than people who just want to work the minimum inefficiently in a given location.
@ @1jof+1dnAaibS. Sure, the new VP just telocated to
Midland and now offices jobs are gping to be relocated to Houston, makes total sense. Your sources are great!
Hosuton for all office work. Only field staff will remain in Midland.
Where are you going to consolidate to? Midland or Houston? Both places are dumps, no one wants to live in Midland and Houston is a cesspool. If you force people to these extreme cities it causes bitterness in the employees. Let them choose at least they can choose what dump they want to live in. What’s funny is if you leave Midland area the land and area gets pretty. Just for some reason they picked the crappiest place around to build the city.
Upper management are re-org addicts. They need to be sent to re-hab. They are getting withdrawals since its been a year since the last big one.
where did they say that MCBU will have a reorg??
The only thing I heard from the townhall is that with the sale of some assets we will have people that would be transfered to other projects.....is that what you refer to as re-org?
Rinse & Repeat
Makes sense - We need to find a way to recover the mojo and commitment that we had before they forced experienced and good leaders out to make space for diversity and development roles for favorites. Despite the obvious challenges the BU needs people to be consolidated and co-located in one location.