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Iloilo City offers 22T call center seats
By Jeehan V. Fernandez
ILOILO City offers 22,000 seats for prospective call centers willing to expand here. This will be highlighted by Mayor Jerry Treñas before a call center conference in Manila on Tuesday.
“It’s a forum for prospective call center locators so that they will know where to invest.
Manila and Cebu are already saturated, thus call centers are ‘looking outside.’ It’s the very reason why we have to do promotions because Iloilo has been included in the roadmap for call centers,” Treñas explained.
He added the city could take advantage of the spillover of booming call
center industry which will boost local economic activities.
“Workers will be hired on P8,000 a month starting salary. The
available 22,000 seats would equal to P176 million a month. The
workers’ spending will (have) a multiplier effect on restaurants, spas,
taxis and jeepneys, among others,” Treñas stressed.
He said the money that will be circulating from call center investments would translate into a multi-billion industry a year.
Treñas noted a US$1.5 million study as reported by Diversified
Technology Solutions International (DTSI), considered Iloilo City a
hotspot for call centers.
DTSI, a company preparing spaces for call centers, has leased the
second floor of Amigo Mall, a Philippine Economic Zone Authority
(Peza)-accredited IT (Information Technology) Park.
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