Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I would like to work at home more, but I understand that's not how it works and companies need to hold employees accountable and I am willing to take the good with the bad, or else I would have left for another job. Chevron gives us plenty of slack and if you haven't learned that by now, I don't know what to tell you. t's not as simple as the children would like it to be.

@6xsv, you mean you? Easy tell.

Lol to the guy downvoting pro hybrid wfh posts. Everyone likes this gig. You were probably laid off and don’t get to enjoy it. Sucks for you.

I get less done in the office with all the water cooler talk and open door policy of people walking in my office uninvited. Wfh forever is all I got to say.

Yea wfh will stay there is no going back to the way things were pre covid. Sorry boomers, I know y’all can’t micromanage 2 days a week during hybrid now.

If wfh is ever taken away all non engineers and geologists would leave for tech or other industries that are more flexible. No one needs to be supervised 5 days a week in office to do their job. Shell, BP, marathon, Oxy and Apache all do hybrid now. If chevron takes it away people will just go elsewhere.

@2bpq, why wait, it's just around the corner, Chicken? No other options? Imagine that from such a successful, skilled, desirable employee. I was hoping to get a slice of your good bye cake.
Buh bye.
Don't let the door hit you on your delicate little entitled A$$ on the way out.

We could probably bank $2-300 million per major building (few thousand offices) in capex plus tens of millions in opex. But, as others have said, releasing all the workers into the wild and hoping they actually work from home is risky. I ran into co-workers all over town during the day during WFH - at the gym, grocery store, restaurants, shopping malls, even saw some going into a lounge bar one afternoon. Good luck with that.

@3ixi, That's a fair question, how about the issue of how much productivity is lost when employees are home unsupervised playing X-box, taking care of their kids, and other things that CVX is not paying them to do?
Pretend that you are a starting a small company and hired some employees to come in and do some specific tasks and you are paying them a certain rate, or salary to do these specific tasks. But they can either complete a certain amount of tasks, or not, and there is relatively no change in their pay regardless of their output. However, if you stay on top of them, monitoring, advising, encouraging, making sure they are working, etc. etc. the output is generally much greater, and in some cases they are happy with the interface, some cases not. However In almost all cases the output is 2 to 3 times as much as unsupervised, and almost approaching the amount of tasks that you are paying them to do, God forbid.
Do the math. Start your own company tough guy, if you think employees should be free to roam as you pay them. Feel free to let your employees stay home and do as they wish, under the pretense of doing the work you are paying them for. Deal with the results. Report back.
Thanks for reading.

Has anybody (CEMREC?) done an analysis of how much we could save if we got rid of a bunch of office space and let people work remotely? That could motivate us to adopt a more permanent and comprehensive remote work model.

No. All the kids seem to think about today is how much they can get away with while still getting paid. And then we wonder why nothing ever gets done.

Full time return to office will be cheaper than another functional transformation.

I can’t think of any insecure managers at Chevron.

As long as you can continue to produce results and are productive only insecure managers will have a problem with remote

The pandemic taught me that I value “work flexibility” more than I value working for Chevron. Everyone I work with prefers wfh with the occasional “all hands” meeting being in-person.

Hybrid better be here to stay. Shell is only 2 days in office Hybrid. We are NOT XOM. With all the added Teams meetings, adding back 5 day commuting, it would be impossible to get "real work done" unless you give up your personal life.

"Most companies are moving to hybrid/remote work" you all forget Chevron is NOT most companies. Full time in office will return. Shape up or ship out.

I will leave if its taken away and I know a lot of my colleagues feel the same way. Oil & Gas has adopted hybrid/remote the same way they have adopted DIB and other modern measures that are a necessity.

It may take 5-10 years but eventually remote work will be the norm. It just makes too much sense.

We’ll all be back full time next year.

Absolutely not. C-suite will ensure it's discontinued by year end. Only way to know you're productive is to see your a-s in a chair.

I don’t see it changing. Too many companies are full time remote now, hybrid is a compromise and if they go back on it everyone would leave for more flexible industries/roles.

You are already back. Soon they will add Monday on a local basis. Your boss will call Monday meetings. Call from home at your peril. Those working at the office full time will get ahead.

If Chevron wants to lose most of its employees then go back to full time in office. Its a complete waste of time in office. Sit there and take teams meetings in the office and maybe have 5 minute water cooler chats with people. Not worth the commute. If they go back to full time in office I'm out of here.

In a word? No.

Hybrid is a soft return to full time. Stay tuned.

Chevron has never shown any indication adopting change. My guess is middle management will have people back in the office 100% as soon as they can.

Likely here to stay. Even pre-Covid, many people were "working from home" on a regular basis. Who in their right mind would want to put up with two extra days of commuting?