Daily Mail: Ocado turns to Poland for IT staff; UK IT graduate shortage blamed

[DodgyAgent]

I kind of agree with you here.

I was offered a gig in Poland for an EU position which paid quite well (permie) €55000 and gave an allowance for children which added €4000 per child and then gave an allowance based on where you came from in the EU, with certain countries getting more and obviously others less. There's a freedom of movement here, which should mean prices straighten out over time, hopefully not in a race to the bottom.

However, it strikes me as a bit disingenious to be stating it's because there aren't any graduates here. That's simply not true, and I wish they were being a bit more open about it e.g. look, we improve our profitability by doing this.

Shame really, but I'll be stopping the weekly shop with them.

They probably employ a team of utterly useless internal recruiters

[MrMark]

And in more , totally unexpected news, More firms to offshore UK jobs

More firms to offshore UK jobs - Telegraph

[SupremeSpod]

And in more , totally unexpected news, More firms to offshore UK jobs

More firms to offshore UK jobs - Telegraph

However, the CIPD survey showed some employers offshoring jobs might live to regret it, with more than a quarter of companies that have shifted jobs overseas now looking to relocated operations back to the UK.

Move along now, nothing to see here.

[MarillionFan]

And in more , totally unexpected news, More firms to offshore UK jobs

More firms to offshore UK jobs - Telegraph

About time we started offering tax incentives to stop offshoring.

[AtW]

If it wasn't about lower cost then they'd bring in those talented people to UK - it's always easier to solve problems with somebody who can be shouted at in person

[KentPhilip]

Was your mental cleaner local or Eastern European?

Local, more's the surprise..

[MarillionFan]

I shall never use Ocado again!!!

Oh I don't the 's as they're too expensive.

[vetran]

this is more exciting

UK manufacturing is coming home - Telegraph

[alreadypacked]

The cost of setting up a business is not just staff, there is equipment and materials.

China has been on a buying spree, and now owns many machine manufacturing companies and sources of raw materials.

It is now very difficult for companies to start-up in manufacturing as China owns the supply chain.

[fullyautomatix]

I have done my fair share of graduate recruiting/interviewing. The graduates of today really are a deluded lot. Some were asking a starting salary of 30K odd. The expected salaries seemed to depend on how much mortgage they had to take to buy a house. The expectation level among graduates is quite high in terms of how much they can earn. The attitude was one of them doing me a favour by taking up a position in our company rather than actually being grateful that there were companies hiring graduates in this climate.