Thursday, Nov 20, 2008

LOL, Indian companies outsourcing call centres to the UK

Indian Express: Indian BPOs bring Christmas jobs cheer to UK

Christmas in 2008 could have been the gloomiest in UK in recent decades but for Indian companies, which are coming to the rescue of Britons, facing lay-offs in the face of a looming global recession.
This week, Indian call centre major Firstsource sparked early Christmas cheer in Northern Ireland by announcing plans to create 160 more jobs in the region.

Posted by little professor @ 02:02 PM (432 views) Add Comment

11 Comments

1. mark said...

wonder if they will get good service from us or even understand what we say........ I called HSBC and could not get the right info and had to keep asking the guy in India to repeat what he was saying.................

Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:42PM Report Comment
 

2. holding out said...

The green shoots of recovery - next step Primark will open a sweat shop in Dudley.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:46PM Report Comment
 

3. Doom&gloom said...

How the tables have turned!

Some truths in there... "Britons wake up every day to news about economic downturn at various levels: dwindling house prices, difficult credit availability, lower manufacturing production, salary cuts and poor retail sales."

Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:47PM Report Comment
 

4. doom&gloom said...

How the tables have turned!

Some truths in the article... "Britons wake up every day to news about economic downturn at various levels: dwindling house prices, difficult credit availability, lower manufacturing production, salary cuts and poor retail sales."

Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:48PM Report Comment
 

5. harold said...

Welcome to the new powerhouse of the world economy.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:50PM Report Comment
 

6. renting2 said...

India had always recognised that the call centre thing would last 15-20 years at best. They thought that the subsequent increase in their own standard of living would drive the agenda, not the collapse of our economy.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 03:02PM Report Comment
 

7. tyrellcorporation said...

LOL! soon M&S will bring their manufacturing back to the UK. Already (speaking to friends who have things made out in the Far East) their costs have shot up by 30% in the last 3 months as Gordon Brown and the BoE disembowel Sterling.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 03:16PM Report Comment
 

8. nopensionnohouse said...

This is classic news. It is almost worth getting a job at one of these UK Indian call centers… Revenge for the HOURS I have spent trying to make myself understood.

How much fun could you have?

Thursday, November 20, 2008 09:31PM Report Comment
 

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