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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
457 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
10 February 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Romanian subsidiary of French call-service provider Webhelp is to create 457 new jobs at the Iasi centre and the newly established office in Oradea (Bihor County) by the end of 2017. In December 2016, the company received a state aid of 17 million euro to support the job creation.
Webhelp has been operating in Romania for sixteen years and it has an employee base of 2,300.
Last year the company opened the centre in Iasi creating 300 new jobs.
Sources
10 February 2017: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Webhelp Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 90177, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90177.
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