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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
9 March 2020
Foreseen end date
31 March 2023
Description
The call centre group Webhelp has inaugurated a new site in Chalons-sur-Saône (Saöne-et-Loire), which should lead to the creation of more than 300 jobs within three years. For Webhelp, this represents an investment of €2 million, for which the local authorities plan to mobilise a total of more than €300,000 in accompanying measures.
With already 11 sites in France and 4,000 employees, Webhelp is consolidating its presence in the Burgundy Franche-Comté region. With 611 employees at at Montceau-les-Mines site and 113 at Gray, it has also chosen to set up in Chalon-sur-Saône at a site which formerly belonged to Kodak, which had been vacant for 15 years.
Eurofound (2020), Webhelp Chalon, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 99968, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99968.
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