Employers commonly outsource parts of their business. Outsourcing is the process of transferring an existing business function to an external provider to use outside resources to perform activities previously handled within the organisation.
Consumer products giant Unilever has expanded its pension administration services contract with consultancy Hewitt to include current employees.
HR staff at the RAC and Norwich Union face an uncertain few weeks, after the insurer's parent company Aviva announced it would cut 1,700 jobs.
The TSSA insists that if call centre jobs are outsourced to India the company should repay millions of pounds of taxpayers money granted in subsidies
The £220m deal to create an HR outsourcing joint venture has finally been agreed by IT services giant EDS and HR consultancy Towers Perrin.
Manufacturing industry focus
About 120 IT staff at the AA will be transferred after the motoring organisation outsourced its IT to IBM in a seven-year deal initially worth up to £50m.
The UK telecoms giant has extended its outsourcing arrangement for HR services to staff and pensioners to cover employees in 37 other countries
National Outsourcing Association
The IT firm and consultancy will form a joint business specialising in HR outsourcing services
HR outsourcing will finally go mainstream in 2005, with medium-sized organisations leading the way.
Professional agenda – Alan Bailey, head of sales, Xchanging HR Services
Offshoring has been a contentious issue for HR for a while now. And a recent article featured on PersonnelToday.com heralded the welcome news that organisations will be more open with staff and unions about their outsourcing and offshoring intentions in 2005.
European workers are more enthusiastic about the prospect of outsourcing than their UK counterparts, seeing it as an opportunity to develop their careers, research shows.
Europe has overtaken the US as the world’s leading market for new outsourcing contracts, according to the latest Quarterly Index...
Shoe manufacturer and retailer Clarks is ending UK production after 175 years, bringing to an end a cull of thousands...
