By John Donovan
The information below was published on the Shell sww Intranet today, apparently in response to the recent massive global publicity generated by leaks to this website about Shell’s job cutting plans. We are indebted to the Shell insider who kindly supplied it to us.
It contains a comment by Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer as part of an attempt to reassure Shell employees after the genuine concern expressed by Shell staff here and on other online forums in the last few days about the planned outsourcing of thousands of jobs.