We've decreased our workforce by about 1,000. That is pretty substantial and we don't do that lightly. We've been looking at ways of improving our productivity through a number of different mechanisms. We've been on this journey since a few years prior to the decrease of oil, but obviously, in this low-cost environment, it is quite challenging.
The other thing I would say is that we're in a low-cost environment, but we're also in an environment in which we've been adding costs as well at the same time, through different policies, through different regulations, those types of things. We're really trying to work with government to figure out what that competitive climate looks like and how we can work together so that we're not eroding some of the cost savings that we're doing internally within the company through our cost measures, our reduction measures, in order to offset that low-cost environment. I think that's a really important area.
We also work very closely with our contractors. As we move forward, I think we are looking at other opportunities. We're trying to make sure that as we move forward even through the innovation agenda, that has an opportunity to create other types of jobs, other types of economic opportunities for people who have left the oil sands companies, because there's a lot of talent out there right now. How do we actually harness that talent in a way that we can make sure that everybody's working? That is the intent.
I would say also that we continue to look at ways of reducing our costs. Unfortunately, the oil price will probably be lower for longer. We're probably not going to get to the $100 as we did before. In that context, I think we all have to work very smart.