A telemarketing business in South Charleston has closed, leaving 160 people without jobs, according to employees.
Dial America Marketing Inc. told employees Monday that the office would be closing Tuesday, one employee said as she left the building on Thursday.
Employees were picking up their final checks on Thursday.
The facility, which makes outbound marketing calls for Fortune 500 companies, opened in 2000.
A handful of other employees talked inside the darkened office on Thursday afternoon. A manager said he could not comment on the closing.
Calls and e-mails to the corporate offices of Dial America were not returned.
Dial America is located in Mahwah, N.J., and started in 1957 as Life Circulation Co., according to the company's Web site. It generates $135 million in yearly revenues and is the nation's largest privately held teleservices company.
In total, the company has 25 locations in 12 states, including West Virginia, and more than 4,600 call agents, according to the company's Web site. The South Charleston office was the only call center location in the state.
- Gazette staff report
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I loved my job, and loved the people that I worked with.
I will miss being there
I completely shake my fist at the company for not giving any notice