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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 May 2018
Description
Technical support specialist, Voxpro, is to create 400 new jobs in Dublin by mid-2018. The company offers customer contact solutions to more than 100 companies, including Google. It already employs 1,600 in Ireland. The services provided by Voxpro include "multilingual customer experience and technical support; trust and safety; risk and fraud activity; social media management, sales, analytics and harnessing product insights." The company employs 1,700 people worldwide, with plans to expand to 3,000 globally.
Sources
29 November 2016: RTE
29 November 2016: Silicon Republic.com
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Voxpro, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 89240, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89240.
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