"Woke" culture destroying morale - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

3.0
Dec 11, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance is respected and encouraged. Work is interesting and collaboration is generally open.

Cons

Like many corporations, Chevron is bending the knee to the "Social Justice" movement. This means that the workforce is being atomized and pitted against itself. Reference Chevron's press releases from earlier this year crowing about how personnel reductions at upper levels had disproportionately affected white men. This trend can be linked to some large investors very loudly proclaiming a focus on so-called "ES&G" metrics. This also brings about an irrational focus on "going green". Up until a year or so ago, I was proud to see Chevron was resisting the industry trend of mouthing the "Carbon is bad" mantra. This has flipped and quickly in the last year. Terrible for morale

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Pros

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Cons

Leadership has become increasingly out of touch, with regular re-organizations, lay-offs, and offshoring of support/operation functions disrupting day-to-day work and making processes even more slow and bureaucratic. Overall most employees are still wonderful to work with, but the constant leadership mantra of "do more with less" and removal of flexible/hybrid work has definitely reduced morale and made Chevron just another job, whereas it used to be a genuinely enjoyable place to work.

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