Encyclopedia Dubuque
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APAC TELEMARKETING CORP.
APAC TELEMARKETING CORP. A suburban Chicago company, APAC announced its plans to come to Dubuque in 1990. The company announced it would hire between 250-300 people in a regional office in Cedar Rapids with as many as 120 other people in two other Iowa offices. Starting pay was $5.25 per hour with performance bonuses up to 20% of the hourly wage.
Dubuque was chosen because it was a college town from which students had flexible hours. According to one officials, Iowans made good employees because they had no accent, had good diction and used good business English.
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Source:
"Telemarketing Firm Plans Dubuque Office," Telegraph Herald, July 11, 1990, p. 1