People are leaving imperial left and right. But linked in shows 1100 people still working in Calgary.
Is it real? How many engineers are left at QP approx?
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@s8 you mean the zombies and the living deads on the pipeline last 🎃??
The QP campus is ghostville. With one of the buildings leased out to a third party by the new owners effective November 1, there is some sign of life in the lobby level pipeline.
Not surprising. IOL has always been good at presenting numbers in a way that supports the narrative it wants to tell. Since the September 2025 announcement, roughly 600 employees have already left. Unless they're counting contractors who backfilled those positions, I have a hard time believing the numbers being reported. It feels more like an attempt to create the impression that employees are staying through to the QP office closure in mid-2028.
@db additionally, November/December will have additional flux of people “retiring” due to the annuity health care plan changes. Wait until they go DC (defined contribution) vs DB. Wait! Did I steal a second/third line supervisors EADS???
Interesting info, but definitely not an accurate headcount. Plenty don't have LinkedIn, and you'd get some false positives with people who put "Retired" at IOL as their job. Plus probably some folks working on rotation to Kearl who may have Calgary listed as their location, and perhaps some contractors put down IOL.
Would be interested to know what the current headcount is at IOL after all the layoffs and resignations. I think at one point the campus was >2,000, but it's been a steady decline.