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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
8 May 2013
Foreseen end date
8 May 2015
Description
Management services provider Webhelp TSC is to create 350 new jobs in Scotland in the next two years. The company plans to create 294 call center jobs for Glasgow, 76 in Labert and 30 in Kilmarnock (till the announcement day 50 people have been already employed). Till now the company employs over 6,000 people in the UK. TSC was previously owned by the HERO Group and after February 2013 belongs to the French group Webhelp.
Sources
8 May 2013: BBC (online)
30 May 2013: DailyRecord
8 May 2013: business7
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Webhelp TSC, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75503, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75503.
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