Shell expected to slash 3,200 IT jobs
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has told its staff that it plans to make more than 3,000 job cuts.
According to a leaked memo to its staff from Shell’s vice president of IT infrastructure Goh Swee Chen, the firm has been in talks with outsourcing outfits EDS, AT&T and T-systems, and said that contracts were expected to be inked in March.
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A Shell spokesman said Monday that the company is also looking to cut staff in its finance and human-resources departments. But the Shell spokesman said “there is no plan to reduce staff numbers in a top-down, prescriptive way.”
He noted that the company is also increasing the number of engineering staff and other specialists. “We have hired some 3,000 graduates and 9,000 experts since 2005,” he said. In Nigeria, Shell’s largest oil-production area outside the European North Sea and the U.S., the company also plans to cut costs and jobs as it faces pressure from the government to change the terms of its contracts and suffers from local insurgent attacks. The new organization is due to be effective in April.
Indeed, as it moves to reshuffle staff, the company is also rebalancing its expatriation system to attract more talent to riskier places such as Nigeria, Russia and the Middle East, one Shell manager has said.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."It’s off-shoring that’s the problem. Out-sourcing is often done, where a specialist firm is brought in to do a specific job. Off-shoring, in which the jobs are both out-sourced and sent over-seas, is a serious problem.
read the article, they plan to send most of the IT jobs overseas.