This is unfortunate to see.  I prefer the Canadian call centers over those everywhere, including the U.S.

Stream has issued layoff notices to more than 140 employees after the west-end call centre lost one of its major clients.

The 144 “support professionals” were handed their layoff notices last Friday but they won’t take effect until June 11, said a Stream International official.

“These are individuals in the company that answer customer service calls and the reason for the layoff notices is that our Stream Belleville office was given notice from a client that they were eliminating Stream Belleville as a business partner,” Katherin Dockerill, senior vice-president of marketing and business strategy, said in an interview from Texas. (Intelligencer)

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