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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
165 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 November 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Telecommunications company BT will create 165 jobs at a new customer centre in Belfast.
The centre is scheduled to open early 2014 and recruitment for the 165 started at the end of November 2013.
In 2012, the company had announced the recruitment of 400 engineering and 300 call centre workers. The hiring of the new staff will occur in a building in which the establishment of another customer centre created 100 jobs last December.
Sources
25 November 2013: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2013), BT, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76272, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76272.
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