This week the shopping monster company Amazon began operation in its Costa Rica branch with its first one hundred and something employees at their offices in a free trade zone in Heredia.

 

Costa Rica Call CenterJust like many other companies around the world have decided to outsource their customer and tech services to professional workers in Costa Rica, Amazon is now part of the work force that will make a difference in Costa Rica.

 

It has been known for decades that Costa Rica education is above standard rates in America and lots of different companies have opted to outsource some of their services to this country: Acer was one of the first ones about 15 years ago, when they decided to provide all their customer services and tech support from a location in another free trade zone in Costa Rica. After that, came the Sportsbook businesses that for over 12 years have been a regular work opportunity for many people in Costa Rica. Online poker sites, online pharmacies and even micro engineering at Intel continue to come here and get really well trained professionals to work for them.

 

Not only the fact that Costa Rica work force is well trained is one of the reasons for all these companies to come, a big percentage of Costa Rica students are bilingual and the free trade zones are always offering great deal for big international companies businesses, allowing them to get great deals and cut expenses when opening a company in these areas. IBM, HP and Alienware are companies that established their operations in free trade zones and have been in the market for almost decades now, also other outsourcing companies such as Sykes and Stream provide services for many industries and sell their high quality customer services to banks and credit card companies and all their services are based in a free trade zone in Costa Rica.