Law firm, DLA Piper will go ahead with plans to outsource back office operations to Poland according to reports in computerweekly.com. The firm is hoping to improve efficiency by outsourcing over 175 jobs in IT, finance, HR and business development teams. The plans for the move were originally released in May 2016 after the opening of a new business service centre by the firm in Warsaw in November 2015. The move will reduce DLA Piper’s UK workforce by 16%. The firm’s COO, Andrew Darwin said ‘we will be going ahead with our proposals to reduce the size of our IT, finance, HR, marketing & BD, and secretarial teams in the UK, as part of our plans to operate more effectively on a global basis’. For more, click here.

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