eBay Inc. today announced plans to reduce its global workforce. The global reduction is intended to simplify and streamline eBay’s organization, improve the company’s cost structure and strengthen the overall competitiveness of the company’s existing businesses.

In India, we have made the decision to outsource our customer support (CS) and payments operations to a reputed BPO company and this transition will be completed in December 2008. This decision has been made towards ensuring better accessibility and availability as well as faster turnaround times, which will result in greater user satisfaction.

We would like to take this opportunity to reassure you that there will be no outward change to eBay India (www.eBay.in) or to the existing Customer Support and Account Management teams, who will continue to be there to help you in the run-up to the important Diwali Shopping season and beyond.

You can read more details of the global proposals by visiting the eBay Ink blog.

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