Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team | Computer Weekly
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Fujitsu is making job cuts in its UK-based Oracle Practice as the company attempts to reduce costs and increase competitiveness amid the fallout of the Post Office scandal it played a part in. “As part of ongoing activity to ensure its competitive positioning, Fujitsu can confirm the intent to reduce its UK-located Oracle Practice by approximately 60 roles,” said the IT firm. The latest announcement follows the news in April that Fujitsu was cutting about 100 jobs in the UK as the fallout from its central role in the Post Office scandal hit its sales pipeline. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of subpostmasters and branch staff were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office and convicted for accounting shortfalls, which were proved in the High Court in 2018/19 to have been caused by Horizon errors. In January this year, Fujitsu’s European boss, Paul Patterson, promised to stop bidding for government work until after the completion of the statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal.
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