And of course few of us want to do our banking in Bangalore.
82% believe that enough jobs have moved offshore already, according to aDeloitte/YouGov survey. Moreover, 32% of respondents think that UKcompanies should be forced to bring jobs back to the UK while a mere 4%of respondents support a continuation of offshoring. In January 2006when the survey was first conducted, 29% thought that it was a goodthing. Now, this figure has fallen to 13%.
76% of those quizzed thought that China represented the biggestchallenge to the UK economy, while 48% considered India to be our numberone worry. More interesting though is that 34% named the US and 32%Japan.As for remedying the problem, 65% said that investment ineducation and training was needed and 57% wanted encouragement for smallbusinesses and entrepreneurs.
