Company detailsCode: EEUKCompany name: EE LimitedGroup name: BT GroupCompany country: United KingdomGroup home country: United KingdomNumber of employees: 15000Sector: J - Information and communicationSector detail: J61 - Telecommunications Reshoring detailsReshoring announcement date: 25/04/2016Starting implementation date: April, 2016End of Implementation : June, 2016Reshored to: United KingdomLocation of affected unit(s): Merthyr, North Tyneside, PlymouthLocation code: UKL15, UKK41, UKC22Reshored business function: Customer servicesPartial or Total reshoring: PartialEstimated job gains: 70Reasons for reshoring: Improve customer servicePoor quality of offshored productionCase narrative: 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: Seenit, 25 April 2016 Sources link: Seenit, 25 April 2016 Notes: The attribution of new jobs (100) has been shared to the Uk (70) and Ireland (30) has been shared among two cases.
