The first thing I thought when I read this article was: wait, you mean people actually still buy stuff from QVC? Apparently so, as this article from a local Virginia Television station reports:
QVC is laying off more than 600 employees from their call center in Chesapeake.So why do people continue to watch QVC if they then go online to place their order? I guess I'll just never understand the consumer mindset.
They say so many more customers are shopping online instead of placing orders by calling a hotline so they don't need an order services department any longer.
A spokesperson for QVC says that the employees were notified earlier this week. The layoffs will happen in phases. The first group, the on-call employees, will be phased out by June.
QVC has already cut the hours for the rest of their part-time and full-time employees from that department. And by 2013, all of the 606 positions will be gone.
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