job losses
RSS job lossesHundreds of IT jobs to go at Lloyds
News One of the bank's biggest unions, Accord, said the job losses at the bank since January now stand at around 8,200, which equates to around five per cent of the total workforce. The Lloyds Banking Group... [17 Jul 2009]
HP to axe 5,700 Europe jobs
News Hardware giant HP plans to axe up to 5,700 employees, in addition to previously announced losses, the company said on Thursday. The company announced 6,400 job cuts earlier this month, following a fall... [29 May 2009]
RBS IT workers hit by job cuts
News The job losses are part of a bank-wide effort to cut £2.5bn in costs which on 7 April this year saw the organisation announce it is to shed around 9,000 jobs globally including around 4,500 positions in... [22 May 2009]
Barclays to slash up to 350 more jobs
News Job losses will take place in the Global Retail and Commercial Banking (GRCB) Technology department this year, staff were told by email. We are disappointed at the job... [12 May 2009]
Naked CIO: The problems with social networking
Comment Let's say a friend says via Twitter that he understand that your company is going through a rough patch and he heard of some job losses. I recently went to a job interview and found the... [11 May 2009]
ID cards, Oracle, iPlayer and how to save your job...
News And silicon.com columnist Mark Kobayashi-Hillary posed the question Is offshoring to blame for job losses? ID cards, Oracle's move for Sun and the ever-interesting issue of how to keep hold of your... [08 May 2009]
Techies 'more in demand than engineers and accountants'
News Many companies have reported technology job losses in the past 12 months, including HP and Accenture. The Report on Jobs for March uses a points system, in which 50 indicates no change in... [09 Apr 2009]
Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Comment Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is a director of the National Outsourcing Association and the author of 'Who Moved My Job? For IT workers, the threat of finding your job has been offshored remains - but this has... [02 Apr 2009]
Hard times hit Bangalore
Comment As they arrive at work, they must pass a clipboard full of newspaper cuttings enumerating job losses at outsourcing and technology companies in the city. For the outsourcing industry's young workforce,... [25 Feb 2009]
Pilots want to put the brakes on ID card plan
News Scottish minister for community safety, Fergus Ewing, said in a statement: "In the midst of a deep recession, with more job losses announced nearly every day, it simply beggars belief that the UK... [16 Feb 2009]
Yahoo!'s not to be "pulled apart and left for the chickens"
News For another, query growth, stemmed market share losses to Google, and faster introduction "increases the value of the product. It's my job to make sure that as a company we look at anything that makes... [28 Jan 2009]
Sun lays off 1,300 workers
News The job losses are worldwide, and follow Sun's announcement in December that 130 jobs were going at the company's plant in Scotland. Sun Microsystems has laid off 1,300 workers, part of a planned... [26 Jan 2009]
Up to 6,000 jobs under threat at Intel
News Intel has announced between 5,000 and 6,000 job losses in a reorganisation of manufacturing operations. In a short statement this week, Intel said it is closing down two existing assembly and test... [23 Jan 2009]
$5bn slashed from global financial services' IT spending
News In a statement, CBI chief economic advisor Ian McCafferty said of general IT spend in the UK FS sector: "Another quarter of falling revenues and heavy erosion of profitability have taken their toll on training and IT budgets and... [12 Jan 2009]
Mobile-software company UIQ files for bankruptcy
News The mobile-software company UIQ has filed for bankruptcy, following the decision by its last remaining customer to stop using its platform. Motorola and Sony Ericsson, the joint owners of UIQ via a Dutch holding company, decided at a... [05 Jan 2009]
