Southampton closed and now Belfast is closing.
Which other UK site will be closed next?
Is this impact of Brexit?
Is this China stealing UK jobs?
Is this downturn in general?
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Southampton closing was decided before the Brexit vote. PK has long-held philosophy to shut down small remote centers, profitable or not. [Southampton was profitable]. I am not commenting as to whether that in itself is a good idea, but it had nothing to do with Brexit.
[Brexit was a stupid idea, but I digress]
Edinburgh?
Reduction in global footprint is the new way of working.
Consolidated procurement centres coming up in early 2018.
Southampton
Building C in Stonehouse
Belfast
Leeds
Remote global locations are all being closed down by end of 2017 relocated to Abu Dhabi & Houston. A lot of us just sitting waiting on the finer details from upper management.
The glory of North Sea operation is coming to a crashing ending. No need to stay in the high cost region unless their is strong customer demand. Simple story.
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/PxkEzup
Many Many Millions budget cut in IT in 2018
Leeds...
Downturn does not help. Brexit has not helped.
China is cheap. Other companies are in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Nothing is new here. Poor planning and management of costs during the boom has come back to bite in the downturn
I heard lots of offices will be closed by end of 2017, mainly locations and remote sites. Heard that about NAM too.
China + downturn.
You've probably been outside of this world.