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Offshore outsourcing has not hit UK jobs, says ONS

Silicon.com
Offshore outsourcing of IT and call centre roles to low-cost countries such as India has not hit UK jobs, according to the latest official employment statistics. The ONS' latest Labour Market Trends figures show that employment growth in call centre related occupations in the UK has been nearly three times the overall growth in employment, while redundancy levels have also consistently fallen since 2001. The employment data calculated by region is also in line with that growth trend and the ONS said this suggests offshoring has had minimal effect on the employment prospects of IT-enabled occupations across the UK. more...

3 Comments:

At 2:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I beg to differ!!! I used to work for a large UK insurance company in quite a large department. They closed the whole department (some 80 staff) and made ALL of us redundant - work went to India. That is 80 people's livelihoods taken away from them. We were excellent in our work providing a consistent high turnaround of work (less than 24hrs) and had a high accuracy level with minimal sick absences. Its all about saving money at the end of the day and well I guess the fat cats just got richer. Yet again.

 
At 12:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I understand my friend.. but you did find another job or created employment for yourself.. correct?

When they measure statistics.. they take a wholistic picture... net job losses versus new job creation.

 
At 2:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for your response.

Hmm I did find another job. I was one of the lucky ones, others not quite so lucky.....some of my colleagues were a lot older than me and therefore, new job placement was not as easy for them..but I can see what you're saying re statistics.

 

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