they are offshoring so that the big shareholders make more money. If people (including the staff who are being sacked) stop buying piddly amount of shares in these companies, then this may put a halt to offshoring ?? Just a thought. We are all guilty of forcing these companies to make more profits by going for the cheapest options and the cheapest options are abroad ..
I vote for don't teach them anything during KT. Approx 80% of the staff will bugger off once they have spent 6 months at HSBC anyway and then the bank really will be stumped of course this depends which parts of IT are being offshored/outsourced/tax avoiding ...