Shell pushes ahead, planning on job cutoffs and closing down of offices owing to the dip in oil prices and its takeover of BG Group. Three offices including former BG Group headquarters at Thames Valley Park, BG's offices at Albyn Place, Aberdeen, and Shell's Brabazon House office, will soon be closed.
Shell has asked its staff at the Thames Valley site to apply for voluntary redundancy, also rolling out a separate voluntary severance programme for “some UK employees”. They will be moved to its headquarters in central London, while employees at its Manchester office will be offered redeployment to the capital. Its people at Albyn Place will be transferred to its Tullos office in Aberdeen. The company has maintained that any staff that leave the company as part of the severance programme will be counted as part of its drive to cut 10,300 jobs. It called the takeover of BG as a “new chapter” when it also announced an 80 per cent plunge in annual profits.
