MANILA, Philippines — With a continued boom in business process outsourcing (BPO), Convergys said Monday it was constructing two new sites in the Philippines and open them within the year.

The company said it remained committed to an expansion plan, announced last year, which would provide as many as 7,000 new jobs.

The company will formally open this Wednesday three new sites: Cebu Asiatown i3 in Cebu City in the central Philippines, University of the Philippines-Ayala Land TechnoHub in Quezon City, and Nuvali TechnoHub in Sta. Rosa City, outside Manila. These will bring to 12 the number of Convergys’ operational contact center facilities in the Philippines. The company now has around 16,000 employees.

The UP-Ayala Land center, the company’s seventh in Metro Manila, can hold up to 1,000 employees. Another 1,000 employees can be housed at the Convergys facility in Cebu i3, the company’s third in Cebu City. The Nuvali site is Convergys’ first in Sta. Rosa, and can hold 900 employees.

With the opening of these three centers, Convergys can fulfill almost half of its job commitments for the year. With editing by INQUIRER.net