OGUK 2016: Offshore rotas causing low morale and has workers ‘looking like zombies’

The switch to three week equal-time rotas is the biggest cause of angst among the North Sea workforce, the chaplain to the UK oil and gas industry said yesterday.

Reverend Gordon Craig said workers’ morale is low with many telling him they are treated like “worthless numbers.”

“I’ve visited installations with three on, three off shifts. You come off with folk who look like zombies,” Rev Craig said at the Oil and Gas UK annual conference in Aberdeen during a presentation series on workforce engagement. “It’s not that it isn’t achievable, but it takes people time to settle into a new rhythm. Some would prefer to take a drop in pay than change rotas because of the effect on their overall standard of life.”

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