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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Business Support Service Activities N.E.C. 82.9 - Business support service activities n.e.c.
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The contact center company Competence Call Center (CCC) will set up an operational center in Barcelona with 500 employees. The centre will provide content quality control services exclusively to the Californian company Facebook and erase damaging content in the social network such as fake news. The contact center will be based in the eight floors of rented space in the Torre Glòries. This centre will be a replica of the model already implemented in Germany, where another content control center for Facebook has been opened.
Sources
7 May 2018: Cinco Días
7 May 2018: La Vanguardia
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Competence Call Center, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 93975, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93975.
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