{"id":7935,"date":"2009-05-06T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-06T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T10:22:00","slug":"ebay-to-close-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/7935-ebay-to-close-facility.html","title":{"rendered":"eBay to close facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online auction giant eBay announced plans on Tuesday to close a customer service facility in Vancouver which employs some 700 people.<\/p>\n<p>EBay said the closure of the Canadian facility, expected to be completed by September 30 of this year, was part of a plan to &#8220;consolidate its North America customer service facilities,&#8221; according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is eBay&#8217;s intent to increase the number of employees at its Salt Lake City (Utah) facility, which currently employs more than 900 customer service agents, and at certain other facilities globally,&#8221; eBay said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is a difficult decision to close our Vancouver facility, we believe that consolidating our North America customer service operations will help accelerate our efforts to continually exceed buyer and seller expectations,&#8221; said Chad O&#8217;Meara, an eBay vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose, California-based eBay recently announced that it will spin off Internet communications firm Skype next year as part of a bid to refocus on its core online auction and payments businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay announced plans on Tuesday to close a customer service facility in Vancouver <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}