UK organisations’ reliance on external service providers declined when the recession prompted cuts in training expenditures. However, despite the rebounding economy, spending on external service providers has continued to drop; in fact, L&D budget allocations for outsourced services have seen a 27 percentage point decrease since 2009. This decrease, which is reported in the UK Corporate Learning Factbook 2016, is a strong indicator that L&D practitioners have become increasingly confident bringing training initiatives back in-house.
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