Excellent news! From CNN:
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will unveil the project at an event in Jeffersonville, Indiana, along with business leaders from the group "Jobs4America." They are hoping to generate 100,000 jobs the next two years at call centers that would provide a variety of consumer support services.
The facilities will be built or will expand in towns that have recently gotten broadband Internet capability, enabling them to handle the volume of web-based chat and voice telephone inquiries. The towns include areas where industries in decline have left high unemployment, the FCC noted.
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Genachowski, according to his staff, will make the announcement at a call center that services the Char-Broil restaurant chain and the discount chain BJ's Warehouse. The center's activities have been based in India, the FCC said.
More from ABC:
"It's our hope that this is not going to be a one-time thing, but that this is part of a virtuous cycle of job creation and demand generation that will lead to more job creation," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
Genachowski is scheduled to announce the jobs commitment Thursday in the southern Indiana town of Jeffersonville, where Accent Marketing Services is building a new facility that will add 175 jobs that pay about $13 an hour.
Accent Marketing is hiring! If you'd like one of these jobs, careerbuilder.com shows four positions open right now for an "engagement specialist." Maybe you will be one of the lucky folks who gets to "engage" the public when 175 more positions open up over the next two years.
This is exactly the sort of work America needs. Sittin down. Answering phonecalls. Providing customer service. Isn't that what built America? Lets give India a run for its money!
It could be worse!