Blind operators taught to sell at Moscow call center
MOSCOW — Once encouraged to take dreary factory-line jobs making electric plugs and curlers, blind people in Moscow now have a new option: Working at a hi-tech call center. The call center in northern Moscow employs almost 1,000 blind and visually impaired people, a bold experiment in a nation where people with disabilities struggle to find interesting jobs — or indeed any job at all. With a rapid, confident sales pitch, one operator, Alexei Voronov, talked into his headset selling accountancy software..... MORESource: The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100118com5.html |
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