The idea was for Shell to keep growing in an asset-light manner, outsourcing much of the drilling to oilfield contractors like Schlumberger (nyse: SLB - news - people ).
It is simply a malacious and pointless waste of everybodies time if people delete e-mails in a wholesale manner to keep on with this form of marketing.
Of course, Walmart carefully controls employee work schedules and will have the opportunity to design worker hours in a manner that will keep employees at a level below the threshold required to accomplish company healthcare benefits pursuant to the law.
Against little public support and nearly universal revulsion among business leaders, the NLRB is continuing its campaign to keep Boeing from exercising its freedoms and to employ people in a manner that makes sense for its business.
You get to move your company around to any of the EU or EEA countries (and absolutely no one at all is allowed to stop you in any manner at all) and this puts pressure on each country to keep the corporation tax rate low.