Knowing a few Shell retires, they talk about the times when the work environment was very collegial. Regular communication from the company about promotions, transfers, retirements, etc. - maybe holiday get-togethers or cookouts at the department manager’s home.
You knew about colleagues’ spouses, kids, achievements, vacays, etc.
Now, not everyone got along cheerfully and there were always some sharp elbows but the company they describe is hard to imagine when I hear of Shell today.
Are there any vestiges of what they relate? Hope so.
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Still like that at the M sites, in the trenches
2010s is when use of ESG scores started to be standardized and mainstreamed. Coincidence? Think not. It is not as if 2-3 people got over promoted. Instead, it happened all over the organizations, maybe more than half. Then it took awhile for bad decisions to accumulate and start to cause havoc. Now you are seeing the results.
I'm not even retired and I can remember times like that in the early 2000's.