Imperial already outsourced many of their staff prior to this announcement. QP is a ghost town compared to what it used to be, with many of its operations managed by Exxon Mobil globally.
Likely, this is in preparation to fully dissolve Imperial Oil as as a separate entity from Exxon Mobil.
Frankly, it sucks. I'm sure it's easy to point fingers and put the blame wherever they can (WFH, UCP, Calgary, whatever narrative you want to chose), but this is the cold hard reality is that yet another significant employer has just decided to exit out of Calgary.
This is not purely a non-Canadian entity problem, but global companies have much easier avenues available to outsource from within the company.
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