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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
40 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 August 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The call centre company Sykes Sweden is to hire 40 new employees to its call center in Ed, Region of Västra Götaland. New employees will work with customer service and retail. The reason for the expansion of Sykes in Ed is that the company has taken over full responsibility for an order previously shared with a competing company.
Eurofound (2016), Sykes Sweden, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 88482, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88482.
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