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Blog, Enterprise IT - Monday, May 6, 2013 12:33 - 2 Comments
QBE shifts 100 IT roles to India
blog It’s been a tumultuous few years for the IT department at insurance giant QBE. In July 2011 the company made a number of staff in its IT department redundant (the AFR reported up to 200 jobs would go at the time), and that same year it got a new chief information officer, Mike Emmett. By January this year, however, Emmett was in a different role, replaced by former IAG executive Tony Forward. And it looks as though Forward has wasted no time in cutting costs. According to a Finance Sector Union media release in April (first reported by iTNews):
“Information Technology workers are the latest casualties in QBE’s war on Australian workers, with 100 IT jobs to be scrapped as part of the insurer’s aggressive offshoring agenda. QBE has announced that over 100 jobs currently performed in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia will now be done by workers based in India.
This latest announcement follows revelations earlier this year that QBE are offshoring 700 insurance jobs- including claims lodgement, management and reinsurance administration- to the Philippines. Australian IT staff have been advised of the intention by QBE to offshore these roles, and FSU is assisting members impacted by this decision to understand their rights and entitlements.”
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