call centers

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Oct 18 23:27:51 PDT 2002


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Stephanie Luce, of The Center for Popular Economics, was quoted as saying


> One of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. is the call center.
> About 3% of the workforce now works in call centers, and many analysts
> predict the number to double in the next decade.

Is that true? I thought the same drive to cut costs was leading to more of them getting outsourced to overseas. New York City's overdue traffic tickets are now being handled in Ghana.

Michael



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