British insurance company Prudential will cut 850 jobs over the next two years as it sets up a call centre in India to save costs.
Details of Prudential's plans were unveiled earlier today by Britain's largest private sector union, Amicus.
The job losses will reduce the headcount at Prudential's centre in Reading, west of London, to 1,400.
Prudential joins a growing list of global firms moving call centre and support jobs to India, which has cheaper labour and a large pool of skilled, English-speaking workers.