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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
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
31 October 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Outsourcing services company Teleperformance Katowice, a subsidiary of Teleperformance Germany (TPG), announced that it plans to create up to 250 jobs at its new technical support center in Katowice (Katowice Special Economic Zone). The center will be operational in late October 2014.
TPG has been operating in Poland since 1997 and it has three units (in Warszawa, Siedlce and Katowice) which provide services in over 15 languages, including Italian, German, Finish, Norwegian, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Sources
9 October 2014: Rzeczpospolita
8 October 2014: Property News
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Teleperformance Katowice, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77818, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77818.
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