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US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year
bheer writes "BusinessWeek profiles a call center company called iQor which has grown revenues 40% year-on-year by (shock) treating employees as critical assets. It's done this not by nickel-and-diming, but by expanding its US operations (13 centers across the US now), giving employees universal health insurance, and paying salaries and bonuses that are nearly 50% above industry norms. The article notes that outsourcing will continue and globalization will continue to change the world's economic landscape. 'But the US is hardly helpless. With smart processes and the proper incentives, US companies can keep jobs here in America, and do so in a way that is actually better for the company and its employees.' Now if only other companies get a clue as well."
You can dress up a pig, give it makeup and perfume, but it is still a pig. Giving telemarketers decent pay and health care doesn't make the job any less vile.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Welcome to the First World economy. The Chinese ain't too happy that we will work more than them now either. We'll devaluing the dollar to pay for debt is going to come back home if it hasn't already. Everyone else, "you are next." If you think back the same cycle has repeated itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union. You gotta spend on guns or butter take your pick.