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Clearwire Moves Call Center And 110 Jobs To Escambia County
February 21, 2012
Clearwire has moved its call center and local jobs from Milton to Escambia County.
The wireless broadband services company has relocated to181 East Nine Mile Road — a former restaurant converted to office space near Kmart. The new facility will house 110 employees full-time and will operate 24 hours a day 6 days a week.
“We chose this new location because it was the right fit for our employees in the Pensacola region who had worked in nearby Milton,” said Geoff Levy, Head of Customer Care for CLEAR. “The new facility provided the right square footage, set up costs, amenities and nearby restaurants for our employees. We thank the officials of Santa Rosa County for our long standing partnership in that community for the past 5 years and look forward to working with officials in Escambia County.”
“We are glad that Clearwire has decided to continue to operate in the Escambia-Santa Rosa MSA,” said County Commissioner Board Chairman Wilson Robertson. “The region has a skilled and trained workforce that can ensure Clearwire meets the current and future needs of their customers.”
As part of the moving process to the new facility, Clearwire donated 410 computers and monitors from the facility to the Santa Rosa School District.
“Clearwire has always been vocal that they feel our workforce is worth staying for,” said Dave Hoxeng, Chairman TEAM Santa Rosa EDC, Inc. “When we determined the existing Clearwire facility could no longer meet their needs, we looked region wide to identify one that would. We are pleased they are remaining here to allow their current workforce to stay intact. Clearwire continues to be an asset to this region.”
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4 Responses to “Clearwire Moves Call Center And 110 Jobs To Escambia County”
this is not good news… its not bad… but not good news either. Its not really going to do anything for the local economy, because these are 100 jobs that already existed. They are just being moved to a reasonably sized building for the remaining workforce.
What this article fails to mention is that the other 500 that were laid off, lost their jobs to people in the Phillipines and other overseas locations.
Yes, the downsizing did make the news…on at least 2 channels. The jobs moving here aren’t new ones, they are just moving the people they already have. But maybe it will increase some traffic at other nearby businesses. With the slow economy we have in this area any change is welcome!
110 jobs is a nice boost to the local economy. That will be a boost to the local eateries lunch business just for a start.
Don’t get to excited, they aren’t hiring, they already have the people in place they need to do the job.
They are also selling off large chunks of their network. So the move might last as long as the lease agreement on the building.
They won’t mention they have laid off or fired about 500+ people over the past year to down size. Or sent most of their top employees to other cities such as Vegas and/or Kirkland.
Them down sizing didn’t make the news did it?