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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 June 2010
Employment effect (start)
30 September 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
Stream Global Services, an American multinational that operates call centres globally, has announced 400 new jobs in Dublin. The company successfuly bid for a contract with Microsoft to support customers of its Xbox 360 games console to the European market. Stream presently employs approximately 300 people at its Dublin site. It is intended that the Dublin office will provide multi-lingual support, offering 16 different languages for European customers. It is understood that the initial phase of the implementation will be fully operational in the third quarter of 2010.
Sources
25 June 2010: RTE
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Stream Global Services, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 70649, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70649.
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