"Today we still have 7,000 trained police officers in back office jobs.
Back office jobs in personnel, marketing and finance will be cut in line with the reduction in overall size.
But now it plans to move hundreds of technical and other back office jobs from downtown to three buildings in Morris County, in New Jersey.
New York is also reckoned to have about 400,000 "undocumented"—ie, illegal immigrants, many of whom, no doubt, invisibly work for themselves.New York's high costs put pressure on employers to move out any "back office" jobs.
3,600 back office jobs will go, through "reducing costs and improving its operating efficiency" 8.27am BST Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the eurozone financial crisis.
Nor are these all "back office" jobs: the bank's 750-strong Manchester staff includes postgraduates.Jobs in finance now loom larger in the economies of nearly all big towns than they did a decade ago, especially those that have direct transport links to London.
Earlier this month, BP announced that it would accelerate plans to cut hundreds of back office jobs.
In late March, ANZ Bank said it would shift 100 call center jobs to New Zealand, and confirmed an additional 500 back office jobs would be moved offshore to its facility in Bangalore, India, by the end of the year.
"As part of the review announced last month to reduce back office jobs at London Underground by around 800, around 60 posts will be removed from the company's Health, Safety and Environment directorate," he said.
This does not mean a back-office job.
Regulators have stuffed the banks with capital and turned compliance from a back-office job into a corner-office one.
