In other words
we are outsourcing to India!
Life insurance giant Standard Life will shed 70 jobs from its IT department in Edinburgh in what it hopes will be a round of "voluntary" layoffs. No other departments are said to be on the chopping block, and the biz said that laying off its techies will somehow allow the company to "enhance how we deliver technology" to …
In other words, this was a layoff decision made solely by senior level finance managers.
"Every time I walk by, those IT guys are just sitting around playing with computers. The systems obviously run fine without them, so let's get rid of them and save some money!"