HSBC axes 840 IT jobs

[ShandyDrinker]

Anyone else seen this... clicky

Is this likely to affect contractors as well as permies?

I've never had a contract at HSBC but along with similar approaches taken by other financial services companies this isn't exactly a good news story.

[DimPrawn]

As part of a global relocation exercise, around 840 non-customer-facing IT roles will transfer from the UK to other sites around the world.

----------------------------------> India

There they are!

[BrilloPad]

We must act! Lets switch our business to banks which aren't offshoring. Such as.... errrr....

Anyway - we must act!

[diseasex]

We must act! Lets switch our business to banks which aren't offshoring. Such as.... errrr....

Anyway - we must act!

Brexit will save us! errrrr.
Anyway - we must vote brexit!

[DimPrawn]

We must act! Lets switch our business to banks which aren't offshoring. Such as.... errrr....

Anyway - we must act!

https://www.duncanlawrie.com/

Fine gents in pinstripe suits.

[minestrone]

Tata put a loss making steel plant for sale which puts 1000 jobs at potential risk, media go bonkers, PM and government ministers cancel holidays, Jezbollah doing press conferences outside.

850 IT staff get tulip canned from a bank... nothing.

That is what your country thinks of you.

[vetran]

That is what your country thinks of you.

yep obviously ignoble savages

[DimPrawn]

Tata put a loss making steel plant for sale which puts 1000 jobs at potential risk, media go bonkers, PM and government ministers cancel holidays, Jezbollah doing press conferences outside.

850 IT staff get tulip canned from a bank... nothing.

That is what your country thinks of you.

IT doesn't matter, it's just a load of 1's and 0's.

[unemployed]

Tata put a loss making steel plant for sale which puts 1000 jobs at potential risk, media go bonkers, PM and government ministers cancel holidays, Jezbollah doing press conferences outside.

850 IT staff get tulip canned from a bank... nothing.

That is what your country thinks of you.

Everyone thinks IT staff do feck all , a drain on resources .

they would be right too

[darmstadt]

----------------------------------> EU after Brexit

There they are!

FTFY...Actually, you're probably right or at least in that direction...

Not just It I see:

...the first big tranche of redundancies under a restructuring plan that will eliminate 8,000 British jobs by the end of next year.
...

"As part of a global relocation exercise, around 840 non-customer-facing IT roles will transfer from the UK to other sites around the world,"