February 18th, 2014:
Big oil players BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon & others accused of profiting from polluting
DISGRUNTLED SHELL OIL EMPLOYEES
SQUEEZED OFFICE SPACE AT SHELL
POSTING ON SHELL BLOG BY “RAYMOND” ON TUESDAY 18 FEB 2014
Well we moved into the new buildings in Houston. What an utter disappointment. If this is the new face of Shell (small cubes, no privacy and poor working conditions ) then I can see Shell having problems attracting top people. How many top students want to work in a 6×6 cube while the head of HR lives in his glass palace? Nice one Bruce
COMMENT ON SHELL BLOG BY WAYNE ALSO ON 18 FEB 2014
Poor Raymond, we have been sitting in open office for more than two years. A JG B is also sitting next to us. All in the pretext of cost saving!
COMMENT ON SHELL BLOG “FROM AN OLD EP HAND” – POSTED 18 FEB 2014
@Raymond: my commiserations! I escaped the open offices until my retirement. Each time rooms needed to be shared from a certain jobgroup level I made a promotion and had a room to myself. I remember that in 1977 or thereabouts Don Schaefer was the great mover and shaker behind the introduction of open offices. Everyone was against and revolts were imminent, so he lined up a fact finding team of 7 senior people (all jg 1-2 department heads) plus the junior project engineer (jg5) who had to execute the plan, to visit several open offices in Germany. Except for the project engineer they all travelled first class as was the rule on business travel for jg3+. They came back and had to say it was good, provided you built the offices first class. Otherwise it would be a disaster. (They all lied, but arms were twisted…).
Shell, the U.S. not prepared for risks of drilling in Arctic Ocean
By Dan Ritzman: Special to The Times: Monday, February 17, 2014