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Offshoring

Offshoring is the practice of employers basing some of its operations overseas, so as to take advantage of lower costs. It typically involves employees being employed in those countries.


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    Offshoring trend places more than 170,000 European HR jobs at risk

    by Greg Pitcher 28 Nov 2006
    by Greg Pitcher 28 Nov 2006

    More than 170,000 HR jobs across Europe are at threat from India and other low-cost countries, according to a major...

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    The Indian Offshore Advantage: How Offshoring is Changing the Face of HR

    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2006
    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2006

    Author: Ian HunterPrice: £99Publisher: Orion/GowerPages: 117ISBN: 0566086824

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    HR jobs under threat from outsourcing deals

    by Greg Pitcher 14 Nov 2006
    by Greg Pitcher 14 Nov 2006

    UK HR professionals face the prospect of being replaced by call centre staff in India and executives from other business...

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    Dutch academic insists culture is the key to success in outsourcing

    by Greg Pitcher 14 Nov 2006
    by Greg Pitcher 14 Nov 2006

    Trying to change national cultures is a sure-fire way to fail with an HR outsourcing project, a leading Dutch academic has...

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    British bank squeezes into list of top firms to work for in India

    by Emma Ann Hughes 10 Nov 2006
    by Emma Ann Hughes 10 Nov 2006

    One British-based company and four US-owned organisations appear in a ranking of the top 10 best companies to work for...

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    Guru’s Foreign Briefing: offshoring

    by Personnel Today 24 Oct 2006
    by Personnel Today 24 Oct 2006

    Part four in a series of highly stimulating lectures on how to avoid cultural misunderstandings when you are the guest...

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    BBC to send finance and accounting services offshore to India with Xansa

    by Mike Berry 23 Oct 2006
    by Mike Berry 23 Oct 2006

    Outsourcing company Xansa has won preferred supplier status with the BBC for finance and accounting services, which includes offshoring work...

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    Amicus calls for investigation of security risks of offshoring

    by Georgina Fuller 6 Oct 2006
    by Georgina Fuller 6 Oct 2006

    Amicus has called for a government investigation into the increasing security risks of offshoring financial services administration from the UK...

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    Law firm moves 300 jobs to India

    by Georgina Fuller 3 Oct 2006
    by Georgina Fuller 3 Oct 2006

    Law firm Clifford Chance  is set to move 300 jobs to India as part of a £30m drive to cut...

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    HR jobs among 4,000 redundancies at Norwich Union

    by Mike Berry 14 Sep 2006
    by Mike Berry 14 Sep 2006

    HR jobs at Aviva, the UK’s biggest insurer, will be lost after the firm unveiled plans to cut 4,000 jobs...

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    TUC calls for employers to pay huge compensation to staff made redundant by offshoring

    by Michael Millar 24 Aug 2006
    by Michael Millar 24 Aug 2006

    The TUC has called for all employers who offshore any part of their operations to cheaper locations abroad to be forced to pay large sums in compensation to workers who lose their jobs as a result

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    UK employers warned to stop looking at India just for low-cost labour

    by dan thomas 21 Jun 2006
    by dan thomas 21 Jun 2006

    UK employers are falling behind the US, Europe and the Far East in the race to invest in India's fast-growing economy, according to a government report.

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    Powergen to abandon call centres in India and transfer jobs to UK

    by Georgina Fuller 16 Jun 2006
    by Georgina Fuller 16 Jun 2006

    Outsourcing call centres loses allure for Powergen as it brings jobs back to UK from India.

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    Bank offshores HR admin to India

    by Mike Berry 26 May 2006
    by Mike Berry 26 May 2006

    Lloyds TSB is to offshore about 150 HR administration jobs to India over the next 12 months.

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    Viewpoint: HR outsourcing industry fails to dazzle

    by Personnel Today 23 May 2006
    by Personnel Today 23 May 2006

    Japanese tourists love visiting Edinburgh Castle. At precisely 12pm every day, the same painstakingly observed process of positioning, loading and...

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