Employees Trade Holiday Party for Giving; Donate New Laptops, Library Resources, Gifts and a Party for Students and Family at Harrington Elementary
ENGLEWOOD, CO, Dec 03, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TeleTech Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest and most
geographically diverse global providers of business process
outsourcing (BPO) solutions, today announced plans to host its fifth
Spirit of the Season holiday event. This year, TeleTech employees
will host more than 1,200 students and families from Harrington
Elementary, a Denver Public School located at 2401 East 37th Avenue.
In lieu of a corporate holiday party, more than 200 TeleTech
employees will transform the school into a festive winter wonderland
and host more than 1,200 guests, including Harrington school children
and their families, at an evening celebration on Monday, December 7th
at 5:30 p.m.
The Spirit of the Season event will include a holiday meal, pictures
with Santa Claus, face painting, holiday crafts, games, and more. All
Harrington Elementary students will receive an age-appropriate gift
along with a winter hat and gloves. All Harrington families will also
receive a grocery store gift card.
"This has been a very challenging year for many families and our
employees are proud to continue our annual tradition of hosting a
holiday celebration for a very gracious group of families," said
Kenneth Tuchman, TeleTech chairman and chief executive officer.
In addition to the party, TeleTech will also refurbish the school
library with new library furniture, computer equipment and reading
centers. Upon completion of the refurbishment, the school will rename
the library after TeleTech. TeleTech is also donating laptops for
teachers, notebook computers to create a mobile lab for the third
grade students, playground items, a cot for the nurse's station and a
new printer for the school's administrative office.
"TeleTech employees are providing our students and their families
with a memorable holiday party and critical school equipment the
Harrington students will use and learn from every day for many years
to come," said Sally Edwards, principal of Harrington Elementary.
Employees will be wrapping gifts, signing holiday cards and stuffing
stockings at TeleTech headquarters on December 3rd at 1:30 p.m.
Employees will also be at the school on December 5th at 10 a.m.
decorating and setting up for the event.
ABOUT TELETECH
TeleTech is one of the largest and most geographically diverse global
providers of technology-enabled business process outsourcing
solutions. TeleTech and its subsidiaries have a 27-year history of
designing, implementing, and managing critical business processes for
Global 1000 companies to help them improve their customers'
experience, expand their strategic capabilities, and increase their
operating efficiencies. By delivering a high-quality customer
experience through the effective integration of customer-facing
front-office processes with internal back-office processes, we enable
our clients to better serve, grow, and retain their customer base. We
use Six Sigma-based quality methods continually to design, implement,
and enhance the business processes we deliver to our clients and we
also apply this methodology to our own internal operations. TeleTech
and its subsidiaries have developed deep domain expertise and support
more than 250 business process outsourcing programs serving more than
90 global clients in the automotive, communications and media,
financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and
travel and leisure industries. Our integrated global solutions are
provided by approximately 45,500 employees utilizing 36,000
workstations across 71 delivery centers in 17 countries. For
additional information, visit www.TeleTech.com.
TeleTech Contact:
Maria Miller
SSA Public Relations
303-707-1776
Denver Public Schools Contact:
Kristy Armstrong
Communications
720-423-3627
