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Price comparison site uSwitch.com has made around 10 of its IT department redundant in a bid to cut costs.

Marketing boss Alan Tattersall said the job losses were part of a reorganisation after the firm moved to new offices and combined IT departments with sister site Shopzilla.com.

He said: "It's a minor restructure. Like any business, there's no point in keeping people we don't have a function for." No further redundancies are planned, he added.

Affected workers have entered a consultation period when the firm "may" find other roles for them. The IT department currently employs about 70. ®

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Wrong ones

Should have laid off marketeers and kept the workers.

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Anonymous Coward

The IT dept

I was offered a job by them in the server support team - very nearly took it too - and they said that the goal of their department was to get the site running to a standard such that they could then do as little work as possible. A noble aim, especially in the context of IT support, but not one likely to impress anyone else in the business :s

Still, at least you know the site is stable now :)

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"Not sure I see a reason for any negative comments on uSwitch?"

They're a bit dodge - take a look at the bottom of this article -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_switching_services_in_the_UK

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