JOBS: Call centers offer large numbers of jobs
Source: Neal McNamara, Herald Bulletin (IN), September 26, 2007
Five hundred in Daleville. Some 600 to 700 in Muncie. More than 2,000 in Fishers and Castleton. And now 500 in Anderson.
With companies like IBM, Sallie Mae and now Affiliated Computer Services, call centers seem to be de rigeur in Madison and its contiguous counties.
...... But companies like IBM and Affiliated have a larger stake in the state than most companies. IBM, with help from Affiliated and other companies, is overseeing the privatization of the state's welfare system, a Mitch Daniels initiative. Daniels asked companies interested in the privatization to create jobs for state residents. The call center in Daleville, and the one planned for Anderson, are part of that.