Telus International
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TELUS International
TELUS International is a wholly owned subsidiary of TELUS, a national telecommunications company in Canada. TELUS International provides global contact center and business process outsourcing services. Clients include corporations in the financial services, consumer electronics and gaming, telecommunications, energy and utilities industries. TELUS International has 20,000 employees worldwide.[1]
TELUS International has adopted its parent company's approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR). TELUS Days of Giving take place around the world, with employees donating their time to build and renovate schools and homes. TELUS Community Boards have been established in the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Eastern Europe, each with a budget of $100,000 to contribute to local charities.
Offices
TELUS International maintains contact centers in the Philippines, the United Kingdom, the United States (Nevada), Central America (Guatemala and El Salvador), where it used to be known as Transactel powered by TELUS, until the second semester of 2014 when it fully transitioned to TELUS International Central America, and in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria and Romania), where it is known as TELUS International Europe.[2]
The majority of the TELUS International workforce is used for North American and European customer service calls and business process outsourcing services.
Services
TELUS International’s contact center outsourcing and business process outsourcing (BPO) services include customer care, technical support, sales support, and credit and collections.[3]
TELUS International has been involved in contributing to industry knowledge, mostly through white paper development on topics that include reducing attrition, serving generation Y, and implementing emerging customer service models like chat and social media.
Implications and Criticism of Outsourcing
Outsourcing, especially offshoring, always comes under scrutiny, mainly due to job displacement.[4] Outsourcing supporters draw on mainstream economics to make the business case. However, the use of mainstream economic logic does not address the ethical questions thus raised.
Overall, companies are expanding offshore operations through both captive and third-party models.[5] Over the last several years, call center and customer service outsourcing has spread from India and other early adopting geographies into a number of emerging markets like Eastern Europe, Central America, and other locations, mostly due to evolving business needs of large, multinational companies.
Large consulting and analyst firms often cover outsourcing as a main topic, providing updates on the current state of outsourcing:
References
- ↑ TELUS International, corporate website. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ Telus International, corporate website. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ TELUS International, Products and Services
- ↑ CIO: Outsourcing scrutiny
- ↑ Offshore location insights
