RollOnFriday understands that Irwin Mitchell is planning to outsource all of its IT work, with redundancies expected.

A source told RollOnFriday that Esteem, an 'IT Managed Services Provider', is being given the personal injury firm's IT functions this year. Irwin Mitchell paid Esteem £1.7 million in 2012 to "transform their IT infrastructure", but now it appears it has been told to just take it over instead. The first phase will apparently see all of Irwin Mitchell's helpdesk roles in Sheffield moved to Esteem's call centre. Irwin Mitchell staff are thought to be unaware of the plans.

    "Have you tried turning it off and then outsourcing me?"
The cost-cutting move follows a drop in IM's pre-tax profits of over 10% last year. And it hasn't had much luck working compooters, either, suffering embarrassment when a cack-handed marketing strategy saw it banned from Google.

A spokesman for Irwin Mitchell told RollOnFriday, “Esteem are already a valued supplier of IT services to our business. We are in discussions with them and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage”.
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