CSC UK touts jobs at RIVALS to techies facing chop Outsourcing biz CSC has allowed rivals to advertise job vacancies on its intranet as hundreds of workers face redundancy. In February the integrator wrote off nearly $1.5bn in the fallout of the NHS IT fiasco and threatened to axe 500 techies working on its project to provide electronic patient records. A 90-day consultation …
Is it really that surprising that companies the size of CSC and HP will always need to recruit people with certain skills whilst having a surplus of people with other skills. Retraining is, as I am sure many of you know, no substitute for recruiting people with years of real world experience.
anon as I may have worked for CSC or HP or both
When they were a fairly new, to the UK, company I worked for them for a few months. That was all the time it took to discover the competence of the management! Although the short period with them looked bad on the CV it was infinitely preferable to working with that shambolic lot.
Having said that it does, at least, show some sense letting people find alternative positions rather than dumping them on the street. It also saves them paying redundancy money I have no doubt.
Now retired, thank goodness, I don't have to worry about vindictive management prats.
the non useful staff were TUPE'd to the new supplier and any skilled staff kept....was a good way to out the "dead wood"
CSC, SERCO et al will always recruit skills in as needed, saves spending money on your existing staff who may then be eligable for a wage rise after completing training
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