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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
28 January 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
The American provider of call centre services, Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), announced the intention to hire at least 400 people until the end of 2013 at two centres located at Bucharest and Sibiu.
Currently, the company has 2,500 employees in Romania, of which 1,200 at Brasov and 1,300 at Bucharest and Sibiu. The company has continuously expanded in Romania over the last couple of years, see here, here and here.
Sources
28 January 2013: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 74842, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74842.
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