call centre

British

noun

an office where staff carry out an organization's telephone transactions

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Emir first got into the industry after being made redundant from his job in a call centre, using his redundancy money to buy a van and sell fish and chips opposite Ouday's pub in Swansea.

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Jason, who works as a call centre manager, says the impact has been both emotional and financial.

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"It is nice to know that in an accident the bike can send information like location, speed and direction of travel to the call centre."

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When she graduated from university she worked in a call centre but "ended up taking sick leave and then having to resign in a very short space of time".

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At the same time, it triggers an alert to a private rapid-response call centre - professional response companies are common in South Africa - where a trained operator calls the user.

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