The mining world has been rocked after Rio Tinto announced it was reinvigorating negotiations with Glencore over the idea of creating the world’s longest online induction for its future workers.
Given the size of both companies, the sheer level of red tape will dwarf any other miner in the game.
This means plenty of boxes to tick so executives can stand in front of the enormous board to big note initiatives they claim are improving the synergic flow of the workforce bandwidth . Or some shit.
We spoke to an industry expert who said he would imagine a worker would need to sit at a computer for approximately 3 months before setting foot on site. Adding,
“It’s all very exciting for workers. They’ll get a 3 month online induction to learn about both of the giant’s culture, goals and insincere assertion that they are all a big family. Then there will be at least a month on what will happen if you post a photo of site online”
Some say that the sheer size of this induction is anti-competitive and smaller corporations simply wont be able to offer the same excruciating experience for potential staff.
We spoke to a young man who was reading to start his FIFO journey. He told The Times,
“Why would I work for FMG when RIOCORE or whatever they might be called can offer me 10 times the amount of boring, repetitive inductions? All at my own cost no doubt?”
He raises a good point.
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