AZ to close R&D at Alderley Edge

[Waldorf]

Not to worry. The BBC have moved up north.

Are we moving nearer and nearer to:

North=public sector
South-East=private sector

Agreed, but very sad and worrying.

[BolshieBastard]

Surprised as I was at Charnwood a few years ago when they closed that. Moved a lot of resource to AE. There was a lot of talk at the time of R&D being off-shored to you know where and that AZ was effectively becoming a UK shell company with a HO in the UK and everything else distributed.

A former friend worked on R&D IT projects at AZ so I would presume IT is affected. It also ties in when she said it was a good time to try and move into other sectors.

[Sysman]

Who are AZ?

Google isn't much help here.

[eek]

Who are AZ?

Google isn't much help here.

AstraZeneca

[Sysman]

AstraZeneca

Thanks.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Not to worry. The BBC have moved up north.

Are we moving nearer and nearer to:

North=public sector
South-East=private sector

A lot of companies are moving their research and tech centres away from the South East because of the costs involved, so this is not necessarily true at all. Barclays for one are trying to move away from their high cost locations to the lower costs ones...

[Doggy Styles]

A lot of companies are moving their research and tech centres away from the South East because of the costs involved, so this is not necessarily true at all. Barclays for one are trying to move away from their high cost locations to the lower costs ones...

That might be true, I was just putting it out there and asking the question really.

I have no stats, just recall of the odd companies and public services doing it.

[northernladuk]

A lot of companies are moving their research and tech centres away from the South East because of the costs involved, so this is not necessarily true at all. Barclays for one are trying to move away from their high cost locations to the lower costs ones...

Yeah, to another country lol....

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Yeah, to another country lol....

Indeed some of them did go to other countries! But a lot of other roles are shifting from London to other parts of the UK - you get the benefits of keeping workforce in the UK but at a much lower cost than in London.

[rootsnall]

Indeed some of them did go to other countries! But a lot of other roles are shifting from London to other parts of the UK - you get the benefits of keeping workforce in the UK but at a much lower cost than in London.

Agreed, I think there has been an increase in IT sites in the North West, appears to be that way in my game.