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Two weeks ago the utility company Powergen said it was closing its Indian call centre, blaming the decision on the fact that it had had a negative effect on customer service.Earlier this week, a worker at HSBC&#8217;s Bangalore call centre was arrested after he was caught allegedly supplying personal details to fraudsters who went on to steal \u00a3230,000 from 16 UK customers. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2006\/jun\/30\/business.india\" target=\"_blank\">Is it finally time to hang-up on Indian call centres?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; UK companies are asking if cost savings are worth the price they are having to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-uu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28837,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/huge-phone-scam-targeting-americans-leads-to-700-being-detained-in-india\/","url_meta":{"origin":1890,"position":0},"title":"Huge phone scam targeting Americans leads to 700 being detained in India","date":"October 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Police say call-centre workers in Mumbai posed as Internal Revenue Service tax collectors to rake in millions of dollarsThousands of US citizens may have been targeted in a huge tax scam run from fake call centres in Mumbai in which hundreds of workers were allegedly trained to speak in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":52730,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zanzibar-mega-resort-offers-expats-an-opportunity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1890,"position":1},"title":"Zanzibar mega-resort offers expats an opportunity","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Off the coast of Tanzania, a tropical island resort is set to change the face of the Zanzibar archipelago - and for the first time expats will be able to buy a home there.The development of the Zanzibar Amber Resort,a mega-project by Pennyroyal Gibraltar, will sustainably and economically transform\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/vvlBn3IKUEs\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":144431,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uks-garden-centres-hope-sunshine-and-chelsea-flower-show-will-help-them-rebound-from-the-rain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1890,"position":2},"title":"UK\u2019s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain","date":"May 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A cold, damp spring depressed plant sales in the UK, but help is at hand from the \u2018Glastonbury festival of the gardening world\u2019The sixth-wettest April on record has not been kind to Britain\u2019s gardens or its 1,600 garden centres.So far this year, with most of the key selling season\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":101718,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-couldnt-use-my-wyevale-garden-centre-gift-card-after-dobies-took-it-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":1890,"position":3},"title":"I couldn\u2019t use my Wyevale garden centre gift card after Dobies took it over","date":"November 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was shocked when I couldn\u2019t use spend \u00a3150 voucher locally and was told to travel miles awayI am a keen gardener and was fortunate to receive more than \u00a3150-worth of Wyevale garden centres gift cards for my recent summer birthday. 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