Business process outsourcing company Emerge BPO is forging ahead with the development of a new Georgetown campus, which is expected to increase its capacity to serve the needs of the industry.
While the company had announced plans to operate from the IPA building on Camp Street, Georgetown, it has shifted its operations to the seven-storey building at Camp and Robb streets, opposite Teleperformance.
The company’s logo has been mounted on the building.
A source told Stabroek News that the company has started to prepare the building to accommodate staff.
It is unclear when the company would begin its operations at the new campus.
In an interview with Stabroek News in June, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Heidi Solomon-Orlick had said the company had rented five of its six floors of the IPA building on Camp Street.
The site was expected to house a state-of-the-art recruitment centre, which Solomon-Orlick said would be “super hip and super colourful,” since the company is targeting a millennial workforce of 1,500 to 2,000.
It is unclear why the company decided to change campus locations.
Efforts to contact a representative of the company yesterday proved futile.
Solomon-Orlick had previously explained that part of the reason for their investment in the new campus, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, was anticipated growth, and she noted that the company is trying to get ahead of the curve. She added that the anticipated growth in the industry is independent of the development of the oil and gas industry, although she pointed out that it would assist the growth of the BPO industry through securing more exposure for the country.
