KUALA LUMPUR, March 17, 2015:

Around 850 jobs could be at stake at Shell offices in Cyberjaya as the Anglo-Dutch oil major consolidates its IT functions at a new base in Bangalore, India.

While no decision has yet been made, a senior officer dropped this bombshell during a town hall meeting with staff in Cyberjaya late last month, said sources.

The Bangalore move could also affect some 1,000 third party contractors if they are unable to relocate to India, the sources said.

The Shell Technology Centre Bangalore (STCB) is to be one of the three global hubs for technology, after Houston and Amsterdam for the energy group.

“By the end of 2010, STCB employed around 700 professionals and has plans to grow to about 1,500 in the near future. Recruitment at STCB is currently focused on graduates in India and experienced Indian professionals,” Shell Global said at its website.

Given this focus, chances are staff now employed at Cyberjaya may find it difficult to be relocated to India, said the sources, and will probably have to look for new jobs here.

A Shell company spokesperson here said: “Shell recently announced the strategic intention to create an in-house global information technology centre in Bangalore. India.

“This is part of a review of the company’s global IT projects and selected operations support capability that places greater emphasis on delivering projects in-house.”

Asked about the possible job losses at Cyberjaya, the spokesperson said: “We anticipate no direct impact to Shell staff in Malaysia during 2015 as a result of this proposed change. The project is at an early stage of development.

“Given our strategic intent, however, it is expected that there is likely to be staff impact as a result of this activity. We do not yet know the extent of this impact.

“We will share details when they become available with staff and their representative bodies, where appropriate.”

The spokesperson added: “Shell has been in Malaysia for over 100 years and we believe there are still many opportunities for Shell in Malaysia.

“Shell has no plan to close our Cyberjaya business operations centre. IT is just one of the functions based there.

“The centre also provides valuable human resources, finance, distribution, communications production services, global commercial and contracting and procurement support to Shell’s global operations.

“We continue to look for ways to migrate higher value work to our Cyberjaya Business Operations centre from our global operations.”



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Oh dear. We should be thankful with current job that we have right now. Cukurlah dengan apa yang ada. Tough time ahead for O&G industry be it Upstream, Downstream or any related businesses such as RPO/BPO/Shared Services to O&G.

There's no Shell staffs in Cyberjaya to begin with.
HP staffs to be exact.

Know before talk man....

Shell still around if you aware...the building is next to IBM/Experian/AT&T
Still a number of shell staff...with a bigger number of contractor staff...
All those AT&T/T-sys/HP staffs supporting it already working from each company office ad...

Using Shell indicator but paid by HP

HP also a failed company.

I thought HP Shell account bungkus long time dy. Only left with T-Systems and AT&T with a few smaller contractors.

This post has been edited by EightPhantomz: Mar 18 2015, 09:32 AM

dude, u need to know this place exists...
https://plus.google.com/1122204684138782211...out?gl=my&hl=en
There are still Shell staffs....not just those contract staff from HP/ATT/TS who work for them...

HP belum bungkus, but moved a few roles/teams to India ad...
basically "align" with customer's vision

As said, the name is there, but owned by others.
Moving a person from 1 to another country is like forcing a person to resign by their own

I can't believe there's so much ignorant people speculating and making assumptions.

After selling and outsourced to AT&T, T-System and HP. There are still a lot of Shell permanent staff working in SBSC. The plan has been announced 5 yrs back and hence the freeze of hiring of perm staff.

There are a lot of Shell perms that will be affected but shell has plans for them for internal recruitment into different departments

Yup, you are right, like sending a west Malaysia people going to East Malaysia with minimal allowance
More to come from Royal Dutch, this is just the beginning
Not to mention few years back they sold the HQ office.

This post has been edited by supersound: Mar 18 2015, 01:35 PM

Well at least the shell staff don't need to worry jobless. The vss is very good and relocation package is good too. Lutong still has a lot of vacancies.

Are they giving VSS? In your dreams maybe. Nowadays Shell don't play with this rubbish.

Relax... why so worked up.

Y u hate shell so much?

Hate? Never, is just hat they are not like last time generous when treating their staffs.
Just see how many refineries sold and what happen to the employees inside.

Bawak bertenang bro.

heard they do give VSS....rumor only la for now

You should know that what they doing now is still better than how the market treat it's employee. Even if they terminate u they still give u options. Btw, only the IT folks got retrenched. It's good news because IT ppl always wanted to join the OU. Now they can decide to make the switch now.

Yeah right......i'm a Shell staff in Cyberjaya, at the moment la.....

i heard there is this redundant scheme.....but don't expect so much

Yeah....don't understand why they prefer to sold the assets to save cost and improve cash flow but on the other hand spend unnecessary fund for HSSE and some rubbish crapz
pity those from SRC, Geelong, etc....