The Bacolod City Permits and Licensing Division will accommodate applications for business permits through the One-Stop-Shop at the 2nd floor of the City Hall starting February 18.

The One-Stop-Shop, which reduces processing time for Business/Mayor's Permits, opened at the BAYS Center last January 2 to accommodate the influx of applications.

Since after 45 days the flow of business applications has already slowed down, the city administration has decided to process business permits applications at the City Hall, said Ardis Jaculina, head of Permits and Licensing Division.

TeleTech receives
DTI excellence award

Business process outsourcing firm TeleTech, which operates call centers in Bacolod and Iloilo , received the Regional Outsourcing and Offshoring Excellence Award from the Department of Trade and Industry at the recently-concluded E-Services Global Outsourcing Conference, Teletech said in a press release.

The Regional O&O Excellence award recognizes of companies that have supported the development of so-called next wave cities through direct investments and other initiatives such as human resource development.

The DTI campaign seeks to establish more cities outside of Metro Manila as ideal locations for investors, in anticipation of further demand from the global BPO market.

Teleperformance
staff now 1,400

Teleperformance-Bacolod has clarified that its present employees now number more than 1,400, not only 400 as stated in the press release sent by the Bacolod City PIO yesterday.

It said the figure quoted in the news was for the last quarter of 2006 when Teleperformance started its operations in Bacolod. *

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