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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
The Dutch telecommunications company Altice announced that it will open a contact centre in Covilhã, the municipality welcomes the news since there are growing concern about depopulation and lack of job opportunities in the area. The new centre will create 200 new jobs. Randstad, a human resources company, will be responsible for the creation of the centre. This is the thirteenth contact centre that Altice opens in Portugal, in partnership with Randstad.
In the last two and a half years more than 1,500 jobs were created in Portugal by Altice. The ERM recorded two job creation announcements in 2016 (110 jobs and 180 jobs).
Sources
25 January 2018: Jornal economico
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Altice, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 93249, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93249.
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