DLG to offshore roles as part of £100m annual cost savings drive
Direct Line Group is set to offshore a "limited number" of chief operating office and sales, service and partnership roles as it begins to cut hundreds of UK jobs ahead of a planned flotation.
Last week, the firm confirmed plans to make 891 redundancies, including 500 from closing its Teesside office, as part of a target of achieving £100m of gross annual cost savings by 2014, first
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