Brett Trevalyan

UK

Director/owner

Peter

In any consideration of offshore outsourcing trends, I think it always pays dividends to add a small section on the role of our own politicians in this process. I have been running an offshore data processing company for the past 15 years (datacapture.com) and now find that I must raise a toast to Grodon Brown and the EU, (for purely selfish reasons it must be admitted.)

For the first 10 years of our existence, offhsore outsourcing was always a difficult sale. Now it's like pushing at an open door. For at least 2 UK based clients who had resisted our arguements for many years, the tipping point was the introduction of EU social legislation combined with Mr. Brown's NI increases. Companies found it both harder to employ home workers and more expensive to do so. As we are talking here of at least 300 or so jobs in total (and we are only one supplier), perhaps there is a case for drawing politicians attention to their own role in this process..........

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