July 6, 2005 4:35 AM PDT

Dell to hire 1,000 workers in Oklahoma

Dell is expanding its customer call center operations in Oklahoma City by adding 1,000 new employees and erecting a new building, the company said Tuesday. Plans call for a new 120,000 square-foot facility, which is scheduled to open by March 31, 2006, the computer maker said. It will be a mirror image of Dell's existing plant on the Oklahoma River.

The additional 1,000 workers will consist mostly of salespeople but will include service technicians and managers. Dell said it needs extra hands on deck to deal with an influx of public-sector and corporate accounts, as well as the need to resolve technical questions regarding servers and storage. The plans represent an increase in its hiring projections; in July 2004, the computer maker had planned to hire between 250 and 500 employees in the area. Four months later, the company increased its employment projection to 700.

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Now if we could only get them to tear down those Indian call centers where they route all the support calls to when dealing with Dell personal products. Those guys are unbearable.
Posted by Robbkore (2 comments )
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Oklahoma River???
"t will be a mirror image of Dell's existing plant on the Oklahoma
River." What the hay are you talkin' about? You bicoastals continue
to amaze me: where the hell is the Oklahoma River?
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Oklahoma River to be "named" ...
I know it didn't exist when you were taking geography ... but a politician wants to name a river ...

<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news6047.htm" target="_newWindow">http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news6047.htm</a>
Posted by john-michael (4 comments )
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At Least One Company is hiring in the USA
While IBM, GM, Wachovia, HP and more continue to have little faith in American workers and shed them, there's at least one company that's hiring American...
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