Aecom IT job losses: Only 50 out of 1,000 jobs being retained

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IT jobs are being lost at Aecom
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IT jobs are being lost at Aecom

Further details emerge from Aecom's decision to outsource its entire IT to IBM. "Visibly nervous and flustered" CIO Tom Peck delivered the news

Only 50 jobs are set to be retained at engineering giant Aecom, with the bulk of the remainder of the almost 1,000 IT staff likely to be made redundant. Last week Computing revealed that the firm...

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