#houston

I cannot find the original post but I remember seeing one of the posts saying 50% of Houston personnel will be retirement age in 10 years. What’s the source of that information? Is it true?

Nearly 300 Houston-area workers face upcoming layoffs. These individuals are employees of Sodexo. Sodexo manages food services at various hospitals. A total of 296 workers across four HCA Healthcare sites are impacted. The layoffs are scheduled to begin on June 13.

Houston, Texas

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/04/08/nearly-300-houston-area-food-service-workers-face-layoffs-tied-to-hospital-contract-changes-records-show/

Projects are unable to progress due to insufficient resources in Houston to progress the work. Fired the wrong people or too many.

Given the impact MENA has on SLB’s revenue and the closing of the strait, any rumors about the SLB situation and what to expect in terms of headcount situation in the Houston metroplex?

Anyone knows latest on Dow’s restructuring 2026? This will surely impact Houston job market and those impacted by Shell’s own restructuring.

Involuntary surplus of the Houston test center today. I believe 68 of us left. Everything moving to Dallas.

Houston is modernizing the buildings based on the San Ramon model and we promise you will only move to the unassigned model in a modernized space. You’re going to love it.

What is the mood knowing they broke that commitment and are now awkwardly and cowardly backtracking by possibly bringing the Hess building into play?

Btw, MN was the decider to force everyone into unassigned. Now RB is trying to clean up his mess.

The Grayson mill energy Houston office that was shut down, all those people that were let go are probably laughing now that the shared services cuts are going to hit OKC. If you aren’t where the center of power is, you are expendable and it’s only a matter of time. Can’t manage data, can’t support your customers, can’t IT hundreds of miles away :)

We've been stuck in the HOU150 garage for 45+ minutes. That me and about 100 other cars. Just trying to leave. Unbelievable.
Force everyone into a needlessly remodelled office with open-plan seating that strips away dignity and privacy—then schedule repairs on the elevators, escalators, and garage all at once, grinding facility throughput to a halt.
What are we doing? Why does everything have to be this hard? Why are we doing this to ourselves?

ATM Live from houston-let’s do something fun and games with our EC team.

Janus International Group will lay off 113 employees. These permanent job cuts affect a Houston facility. The company is consolidating its operations. Layoffs are scheduled to begin after April 2. Affected roles include rollers, stapler felters, and material handlers.

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2026/02/13/janus-self-storage-manufacturer-houston-layoffs.html

In the process of relocating to Houston. Looking for a house. Learning that property taxes & insurance are insane in Houston. Seeing >$16k property taxes and >$6k insurance, not including flood insurance. Auto insurance is higher too. Is this normal?

So much money is thrown away in property taxes & insurances here. It seems ridiculous.

Expand Energy, formerly Chesapeake Energy, will move its headquarters. The company is relocating from Oklahoma City to Houston, Texas. This move is expected to be completed by mid-2026. Primarily executives will relocate.

https://www.kosu.org/energy-environment/2026-02-10/expand-energy-formerly-chesapeake-to-move-its-headquarters-out-of-okc

What depts move to Houston?

Anyone surprised? Me neither. I'm not moving to Houston even if they offer it, which I'm sure they won't for most of us.

Generic email from RR admitting they made a mistake and are reviewing the open seating plan. What doesn’t mean? Are we undoing it? What’s going on?

Anyone know how many roles currently in Midland will be eliminated or moved to Houston this year and in the upcoming years per company plan and reorg plans?

Multiple layoffs in different groups.

a bunch of us just arrived in Houston-All the talk is about how much trouble the company is in & how much are workloads have increased since the company laid off 250 employees-all the talk is about the $45m deficit & the lawsuit & the upheaval in leadership-In 18 months: greed, severin, festog, donaldson, goldstein, roehrich, loughery, gutteraireez, golatt, conway, are all gone-field sales leadership suxx-We are all very skeptical-Company is still hiding things from us. Client losses keep mounting-Company cant revenue-Many are looking to jump ship right after bonus time. May god save our souls. Now time to go to the bars to get sc-hit-faced.

It’s such a sh-t show! This is how we get better?!?!?!? This is how we beat the competition?!?!?!?! These a-holes torture us for a year with the layoff, surprise us with the return to office 4 days into this circus cr-p of unassigned seating!!!! This is their response to those of us who said we believe in this company to ride it out with you all and get it on track???!! The new op model is a joke and the leaders still haven’t defined roles, requiring us to work a sh-t ton of overtime where we need to concentrate. What a joke of a leadership crew we have. They ki-led this company. I’d have more respect if they are doing this on purpose, but likely they think they are making the right moves. Wtf!!!!!???!!

Make the LT surf a floor for a place to sit everyday and focus on this bs they created! Can you tell I’m pi---d

Any information if this office is for sure closing?

Is Houston completely unassigned seating now in both towers? If so, brutal to absorb that and RTO 4 days all at once. How is it going for everyone? Strong reactions?

I have come in the office every day this week in Houston. My co-workers in finance located in SR have not come in the office one day this week. What gives?

For those that don’t know, the Verizon stores in the houston area have had armed security in their stores for the last 10+ years.

Today we were told that beginning 01/01/2026, the following stores (Cinco Ranch, Aliana, Fulshear) will no longer need police officers due to the restructuring.

I do not know if the stores will be converting to third party or shutting down but figured it would be good to give employees a heads up to start getting their personal affairs in order.

One of Houston's largest chemical companies has announced plans for significant job reductions. A total of 295 employees are slated to be laid off from the firm. While the specific company name is not provided in the headline, it is described as a major chemical industry player. These layoffs will impact the workforce within the specified sector. The job cuts are expected to occur in Houston, Texas.

Another big party with no expense spared. Thanks Darren but I’d rather you save the money on the party and just give every Houston campus employee $200.

Assuming $2M spend and 10,000 employees on campus.

How many do you think are moving to Houston, TX from California?

I know of a few people that are g concerned regarding selling their house in the Danville,CA area. This is a tough market to sell a house.

I took the package and I am retiring. Not sure I want to stay in this area. However, perhaps it is better to just move versus being constantly reminded about the presence Chevron previously had in the area.

$12,500 per business trip to BLR TV
$15,000 per business trip to Brazil GBC
$18,000 per business trip to Europe GBC
$20,000 per business trip to KL TC
$30,000 per business trip to Guyana
and other

$ 475 per hour bill rate - the highest in the corporation and lowest return on the dollar

• Sitting in cafeterias for coffee chats 50%. of time.
• Lunch 10% of time.
• Campus walks and gym 10% of time.
• Dentist appointments and others 5% of time
• Pointless meetings, ERG events, U ited way etc 10% of time
• Whining and complaining about Indians taking over their jobs 5% of time
• Politics and making things up for PDS 10% of time

When does Houston do work? What is the return on $475/hr bill rate for extracting other country’s resources while sitting in a glass castle?

I’ve heard notifications are going out to folks. Some of my colleagues have gotten an e-mail with a 9/1/26 date to be fully moved to Houston. I haven’t received anything yet. Have you?

Have Houston layoffs started yet? Maybe they have changed their minds.

With whispers of the Blue Hydrogen project pushing out FID, that project keeps the lights on at the Houston office. If the project is mothballed, what other projects are on the horizon to keep the Houston office busy?

With oil prices dropping, green energy subsidies drying up, and large capex projects getting pushed further and further out, its going to be a game of musical chairs to remain billable. I don't see any other way around a wave of layoffs.

Top this off with their new focus on GID/low-cost-center engineering (offshoring) it seems like Worley is gearing up to whack the majority of their Houston engineering division, and have it only be there to simply check the work of GID, and GID will be at the driver seat for most projects.

Am I right, or am I right?

Union Pacific please please just furlough me instead of trying everything in your power to fire me along with everyone is in this god forsaken Houston shop!

Seems like less people than normal already. Spoke to one of the cafeteria ladies and she agreed. Anyone else thinking the same?

This Houston traffic grind is rough, miss the work from home days lol.

My husband is a commercial broker and said that he was told that Chevron is shopping their downtown properties. First of all, I did not know we owned the properties and second, if we own, why would we sell now with commercial property so cheap?

I heard a rumor that Chevron is going to secure office space in Cypress. Has anyone else heard that? I’d like to know if that’s true before I relocate.

Did anyone else have parking issues at the Houston office on Thursday? It was packed.

Houston saw Chevron unload the former Noble Energy headquarters in June 2025 for $18.2 million, a fire-sale compared with a previous valuation near $130 million.