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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
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 July 2011
Employment effect (start)
15 August 2011
Foreseen end date
15 September 2011
Description
B2S group's call centre in Chalon-sur-Saône will recruit 150 employees between mid-August and mid-September. The site of Chalon-sur-Saône has already created 41 jobs since January.
The company has concluded a partnership with the public employment service (Pôle Emploi) for this recruitment; the company intends to develop a method to recruit unskilled jobseekers based on their abilities and capacities.
The company has a "corporate social responsibility" label and seeks to recruit people who dropped out of the labour market. With a total workforce of 4,000, B2S group operates six calls centres in France and another three in Morocco.
Eurofound (2011), B2S, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 72250, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72250.
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