What’s at stake: NZ’s IT sector needs skilled people and high-paying jobs to thrive – but IT workers in banks risk their work being sent offshore.
Background: All big banks in Australasia are increasingly outsourcing jobs – initially, low-level tasks but, more and more, skilled work, including many highly specialised roles in IT
Main players: ANZ, IT Professionals NZ CEO Victoria MacLennan, Insightful.Mobi co-founder Paul Miller, Talent Melbourne MD Simon Yeung.
Concerns about a loss of IT expertise from the country have heightened after a revelation last week that ANZ NZ had offshored about 100 of its highly-skilled data and IT jobs to India in recent months.
ANZ, the other ‘Big Four’ banks, and many other big businesses have for decades now sent a
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What’s at stake: NZ’s IT sector needs skilled people and high-paying jobs to thrive – but IT workers in banks risk their work being sent offshore.
Background: All big banks in Australasia are increasingly outsourcing jobs – initially, low-level tasks but, more and more, skilled work, including many highly specialised roles in IT
Main players: ANZ, IT Professionals NZ CEO Victoria MacLennan, Insightful.Mobi co-founder Paul Miller, Talent Melbourne MD Simon Yeung.
