Where to tune in Your comments Archives Main Page Maritime Magazine wants to hear your comments on our current shows and suggestions you may have for future programs. In the last decade nearly 20,000 jobs have sprung up in communities all around the region. Maritime governments have invested tens of millions of dollars to nab the companies. But Dalhousie University sociologist Jennifer Jarman doesn't agree. She says the work has been produced as a result of a shift in the way business is being done.
Call centres are on the increase all over the world.
The main reason is a reorganization of work. Firms are beginning to shift their customer service to the telephone and this has been driving the call centres in the Maritimes and it is still growing. Maritime Magazine this week looks at what the work means to the Maritimers who spend their days on the phone. And we look at the challenges ahead, to keep the calls rolling in.