Shell expected to slash 3,200 IT jobs

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has told its staff that it plans to make more than 3,000 job cuts.
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he Register broke the story that Shell planned to offshore thousands of jobs in 2004.

We reported that almost 3,000 jobs in the firm's IT department could go abroad as part of Shell's cost-saving project, dubbed ITVision.

A Shell spokeswoman told us today that she was unable to comment on whether the cuts cited today were in addition to 2004's job cull.

She said that the Anglo-Dutch firm, as part of its $850m per annum like-for-like cost savings Infrastructure Sourcing Program (ISP) that first kicked off a few years ago, was continuing to look at ways of tightening the belt.

Shell had intended to reduce its headcount by 3,000 by the end of 2006. This suggests that the memo, which was published on anti-Shell website Royaldutchshellplc.com, in fact points to a new round of job cuts.