Ibex Global closes Bend call center, shifts remaining employees to remote work.
Ibex Global, a customer service call center in Bend, Oregon, laid off about 100 workers and closed its office on Southwest Hill Street due to the loss of a customer support contract with DirectTV. The company shifted an undisclosed number of employees to work from home. The facility, which opened as iSKY with 75 workers in 2000, had boomed with the rise of high-tech to some 850 employees, later taking the parent company's name as TRG Customer Solutions and later Ibex Global.