{"id":35121,"date":"2022-01-27T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bournemouthtoday.com\/?p=35121"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:10:53","slug":"barclays-bank-to-leave-barclays-house-in-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/barclays-bank-to-leave-barclays-house-in-poole\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays Bank to leave Barclays House in Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 708 staff from Barclays House in Poole are to be relocated, leaving the landmark property vacant for the first time since it opened 46 years ago.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Staff were informed of the decision on Wednesday 26th January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorsetbiznews.co.uk\/end-of-an-era-as-barclays-announces-last-staff-are-to-leave-the-iconic-barclays-house-in-poole\/\">Dorset Biz reports<\/a> the majority of the 708 permanent staff \u2013 429 \u2013 to new offices in Bournemouth. A further 174 will be relocated to sites across the UK including Glasgow, Greater Manchester and Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>The total net loss of jobs is expected to be around 50 but Barclays says up to 40 new roles could be available for those affected.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Barclays said: \u201cIn order to drive greater collaboration between teams, Barclays has announced it plans to exit Barclays House, Wimborne Road, Poole, by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement will see the majority of colleagues being relocated to new office premises at The Helm, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth continuing the bank\u2019s longstanding commitment as a major employer in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther roles will be relocated bringing teams closer together helping to drive future collaboration at our UK sites including Glasgow, Greater Manchester and Northampton; where we have invested in new campuses and office space. These changes enable us to innovate at pace for the customers and clients we serve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will do everything we can to support colleagues impacted by the changes announced, including supporting redeployment where possible and working closely with Unite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs yet, no decision has been made with regard to the future or disposal of Barclays House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 708 staff from Barclays House in Poole are to be relocated, leaving the landmark property vacant for the first time since it opened 46 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poole","tag-barclays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}