Ten years ago: Move 7,000 miles to save your jobs at Orange
Orange, which merged with T-Mobile in 2010, confirmed that 40 staff would be affected by outsourcing work abroad Picture: MATT LLOYD / NNP TEN years ago, this week, under-threat workers at a mobile phone company were offered the chance to keep their jobs - if they moved 7,000 miles to the Philippines. Some staff of Orange's night shift customer services team, in Darlington, said they were even given details of a "rice allowance" they could claim when they asked for details of the transfer package to the firm's service partner, IBM, in the Filipino capital, Manila. Orange, which merged...
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