In India, $1 housekeepers spark a consumer, worker frenzy despite safety risksSome Indian startups are offering house help for as little as $1 an hour, attracting thousands of women seeking work and consumers eager fo...
Meet the AI chatbots replacing India's call-centre workersAt a startup in India, developers are improving AI chatbots that communicate like humans. LimeChat aims to drastically reduce customer serv...
Life after Skype: Here are some alternatives to considerMicrosoft shut down Skype on May 5, ending a 21-year run of affordable internet calling. Users must now migrate to alternatives like Micros...
View: India has the most to gain and lose from generative AIGenerative AI driven job displacement is where policy needs to be developed
15,000 victims, $300 million scam! US charges 61 over India-based IRS impersonation scamPayments by victims were laundered by a US network of co-conspirators using prepaid debit cards or wire transfers, often using stolen or fa...
ISON Group beats Tech Mahindra for MTN's $300 million Africa dealISON Group has beaten Tech Mahindra for MTN Group’s $300 million (Rs 1,900 crore) multi-year call-centre outsourcing deal in Africa.
ICICI Bank may shift 2,000 employees to HyderabadThe staffers operated out of different rental locations in the city, for which the bank, it is heard, paid an exorbitant rent.
UK energy firm to move jobs to IndiaBritish energy firm Npower has announced plans to move hundreds of customer contact jobs to India to save costs and improve the firm's serv...
Servion forays into Thailand call centre marketNoting that Asia-Pacific region contributed 25% of its total revenues with the launch of its operations in Thailand, the company hopes to a...
- Call-centre bill introduced in US, targets overseas job market
Besides, the proposed legislation requires the Secretary of Labour to maintain a list of employers that locate call centres overseas.
- Nasscom rules out threat from US bill on Indian BPOs
India’s apex association of IT & BPO companies Nasscom feels US Senator Charles Schumer’s plans to introduce a bill, which looks at taxing ...
- Airtel ropes in more call-centre partners
Airtel has silently increased its arsenal of call centre service partners in eastern circles to meet the challenges of growing business vol...
BT to recall 2,000 call-centre jobs based in India: ReportBT, which has 11,000 customer service staff in Britain, clarified its move has nothing to do with the quality of service in India. India's ...
- Scotland call-centre workers fear job outsourcing to India
A leading business services firm in Scotland has announced that it is relocating more than 300 of its jobs to India.
- Indian call centre employees Asia's fastest in switching jobs
The call centre employees in India are the most frequent job-hoppers among their Asian peers with an average job tenure of as low as nine m...
- CESC to expand call-centre network by Dec
CESC Ltd on Monday said it will cover its entire service area with new improvised call centres for speedy and effective redressal of compla...
- BPOs in S'pore pay more than Indians
Call centre operators in Singapore command at least three times more in wages than their counterparts in India, a news report said on Monda...