Chevron here. We’re currently undergoing a FOMO induced reorg, that includes offshoring significant amounts of engineering/IT/etc to India. The impetus for this came from “bench marking” by the all purpose genius at McKinsey. Basically we’re panicking and trying to be like you…
So I’m curious - how has it gone? What works? What doesn’t? On the net?
Just wait for them to start bringing Indians to work in the US while firing you and your coworkers.
India su-ks a-s
Quite simple, pay people 30% of western salaries and get 20% of the work done, at lower quality. Wait for the first process safety incident.
It will destroy us and it will destroy you. I have nothing good to say about it.
McKinsey are not genius, but just overconfident men who know just a hammer, and that hammer is just cost cutting at all costs. When things finally blow up, they have long gone back to their ivory tower, so they are simply cowards never having to bear a single ounce of responsibility, more like the term is not in their dictionary period. They benefit either way whether the company they advise goes up or down. They are maggots that feed from companies downward spirals.
Look at Boeing. That's one zombie they feed on.
We’ve lost almost all our high standards and differentiating technical expertise—what used to make us ExxonMobil people proud to be from EM. So many of my truly good, high performing colleagues have resigned, even in low cost places like Bangkok. As an experienced technical person who used to be a good performer, it’s debilitating how the processes are constantly changing with shoring, and it’s demotivating personally. I now get by doing the bare minimum, and put my energy into other things outside work. In any given week, more than half the time you are trying to sort out fu-k ups from someone else’s lack of thoroughness in implementing yet another new process. There is no longer alignment between functions and teams, or trying to understand implications of changes. With shoring for my work area (IT), change management practices has gone to the toilet, the mess can be sort later but get this shiny new thing in my performance assessment first. The company claims to save millions quarter after quarter, so I suppose it’s worth it?
I feel so sorry for all of us, but it’s a worldwide thing that we no longer value high standards. Look at the IBM or layoff subs on Reddit, and maybe we’ll feel grateful at least we have a good paycheck.
For half of what you're paying McKinsey, I'll give you the real answer to your problems.
Coordinating multifunctional work becomes very difficult given the time difference, the quality of the work is very spotty (often involving rework here and or close supervision), and attrition in our Bengaluru office is fairly high. Sorry to hear Chevron is racing us to the bottom!
How much time you have???!
One word. TERRIBLE