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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 June 2016
Employment effect (start)
31 July 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Customer service company Sitel has announced that it is to create 400 new jobs in Coventry. The move comes less than two years after the company opened a site in the city with the creation of 350 jobs. The new jobs will be located in offices on the Earlsdon Park business site. It is understood that the new operations will be opened by the end of July 2016, following some refurbishment of the premises. It is not known when all the new job positions will be filled.
Sources
9 June 2016: Coventry Telegraph
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Sitel, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 88077, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88077.
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