HSA Insurance announced today it has outsourced its IT development...

HSA Insurance announced today it has outsourced its IT development to India without sacrificing jobs in the UK.

As part of a bid to tap into the accident, sickness, unemployment and critical illness markets, the health insurer said it had cut costs by outsourcing its IT platform to India-based Mastek.

All staff affected by the move have been redeployed into customer-facing roles, the company said.

Ian Maude, business services director for HSA said: “The quality of the system Mastek designed has been highlighted in its reliability - since it went live we have not had a single second's downtime, and response rates are all sub-second.

“We have proved that outsourcing major IT contracts to the Third World can be based on short term consultancy and be mutually beneficial, not a long-term threat to the UK job market and, indeed, to those very people who have helped make HSA what it is today.”

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