10 YEARS ON AND NOTHINGS CHANGED
By John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com
A decade ago we had a team outside Shell HQ handing out leaflets every week on a regular basis.
At the time, thousands of loyal experienced Shell employees were being ruthlessly culled. Shell later paid a high price for hiring contractors to replace lost skills. Is the same short-termism being repeated now?
Transformation under Moody-Stuart, Transition 2009 under Peter Voser; different buzzwords, same outcome. Staff working at the coalface treated like disposable non-entities, while greedy and ruthless executive directors pump up their obscene, bonus and stock option packed, fat cat compensation.