Type
Reshoring
Country
United Kingdom
Reshoring from
Reshored business function
Customer services
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Merthyr, North Tyneside, Plymouth
Sector
Information / Communication
Information Communication Services
Telecommunications
61 - Telecommunications

70 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
25 April 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2016
Foreseen end date
1 June 2016

Description

EE Limited is a UK telecommunications company. It is part of the BT Group, and like its parent company, it is strategically backshoring call centres to the UK and Ireland. It plans to create 100 new jobs in total, which will be spread across centres in Plymouth, North Tyneside, Merthyr and Ireland by the end of June 2016. By the end of the year (2016) EE plans to create 500 more new jobs.


Sources

  • 25 April 2016: Seenit

Citation

Eurofound (2016), EE, Reshoring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 215, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/215.