Tesco makes a play of how it creates 'local' jobs through it's supermarket building programme. Of course external research shows that this is nonsense and that on average over 270 jobs are lost from the local economy with every store opening.
Tesco has taken the next step by removing 'national' jobs and outsourcing them to India. The icWales website reports that 26 Tesco head office company secretaries have been made redundant and ordered to train up their Indian replacements before they leave.
Interestingly the website also reports that month ago Tesco had denied the jobs were being 'off-shored'. Tesco's spin-doctors were also spinning flat out to put a positive gloss on sacking its employees - the statement at the bottom of the article is yet another prime example of Tesco PR puffery...
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Tesco have been doing this over the last 3 years with many IT jobs lost in Wellwyn Garden City and hundreds from the finance service centre in Cardiff.
They made the local S.Wales news a fews years back when the Tesco staff who were being sacked put up big posters in the Tesco office windows saying "up yours Bangalore!"
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