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The global IT workforce at Shell, which totals 9,300, will fall by between 20% and 30% by 2006, with several hundred UK IT jobs at risk.
ComputerWeekly.com: Shell IT staff will be well placed to find new jobs
By Daniel Thomas
Tuesday 4 May 2004
Shell IT staff who leave as a result of the company’s plans to cut thousands of jobs in its technology division will be well placed to find employment, according to recruitment consultants.
The oil giant last week announced plans to cut thousands of IT jobs, eliminate unnecessary software applications and standardise hardware in an attempt to cut its technology budget by £475m and improve overall efficiency.
The global IT workforce at Shell, which totals 9,300, will fall by between 20% and 30% by 2006, with several hundred UK IT jobs at risk. However, worried staff should remain optimistic, said John Ellis, director of recruitment consultancy Ellis Holley Maxwell.
“The market is picking up, with a marked increase in IT recruitment since January. Shell is a very well-respected company that is seen as a good training ground,” Ellis said.
Some of the IT jobs at Shell will be outsourced to India and Malaysia, with other roles being scrapped, a company spokeswoman told Computer Weekly.
“Some of the possible job cuts will come about as a result of moving offshore – but not all – which is an important distinction,” she said. “We are rationalising our applications and stream-lining the infrastructure, meaning some jobs will be unnecessary.”
The Anglo-Dutch multinational, which already employs about 1,000 people in an IT support centre in Malaysia, has yet to decide which applications will be moved offshore, although it has signed deals with IBM and Wipro in India.
The company insisted that the cutbacks were unrelated to recent problems over how it accounted for its proven oil reserves.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
