Good morning, and welcome to the TeleTech third quarter 2008 Earnings Call. I would like to remind all parties they will be in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session. This call is being recorded at the request of TeleTech. I would now like to turn the call over to Karen Breen, TeleTech's Treasurer and VP of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, and good morning. Thanks for joining us today. My name is Karen Breen, Treasurer and VP of Investor Relations. TeleTech is hosting this call to discuss its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Participating on today's call will be Ken Tuchman, our Chairman and CEO and John Troka, our Chief Financial Officer. Yesterday, TeleTech issued a press release announcing our third quarter 2008 results and also filed our quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the SEC. This call will reflect items discussed within that press release and Form 10-Q, and TeleTech management will make reference to them this morning. We encourage all listeners today to read our quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Before we begin, I want to remind you of our disclosure regarding forward-looking statements. Matters discussed on today's conference call may include forward-looking statements relating to our operating performance, financial goals, business outlook, and future plans and developments, which are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions. Such statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance and achievements to differ materially from those described. Such factors include, but are not limited to, reliance on a few major clients, the risk associated with lower profitability from or the loss of one or more significant clients, risk associated with achieving the company's 2008 business outlook, execution risk associated with expanding capacity in a timely manner to meet demand, and the possibility of additional asset impairments and/or restructuring charges. A replay of this conference call will be available on our website through November 19, 2008. I will now turn the call over to Ken Tuchman, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Thank you, Karen, and good morning to everyone joining us on today's call. I would like to take a few moments to review our financial results and balance sheet metrics, and then provide an update on the current business climate. After that, John will discuss our third quarter performance in more detail. I am pleased with the quality of our third quarter financial results from both an earnings and cash flow perspective, given these turbulent economic times. Our third quarter revenue increased to a record $349 million, with revenue in our BPO segment growing by 5.7% over the year ago quarter and 9.5% year-to-date. Sequentially, our third quarter revenue would have been higher by $5 million had the US dollar not strengthened so dramatically relative to currencies of many of our foreign subsidiaries. Our income from operations continued to show steady and meaningful improvement, with third quarter operating margin increasing to 9.3%, excluding unusual charges. This was a 90 basis point improvement over the 8.4% we reported in the year ago quarter. Our growing offshore footprint and improving workstation utilization across a 24-hour period has enabled us to report increased profitability year-over-year since 2005. Our GAAP earnings increased 45% to $0.29 per share from $0.20 in the year ago quarter. Excluding items, which John will discuss momentarily, non-GAAP earnings for the 2008 third quarter grew 20% to $0.30 per share, compared to $0.25 in the year ago quarter. In the midst of this global credit crisis, we have one of the strongest and most defensive balance sheets in the industry. The flexibility of our capital structure, consistency of our cash flow, strong current ratio, and low debt-to-equity is increasingly becoming a key competitive differentiator for both current and prospective clients. We generated $66 million of cash flow from operations in…

Thank you, Ken, and good morning. I would like to provide some additional detail on our third quarter financial results. As outlined in yesterday's press release and Form 10-Q, we reported record third quarter revenue of $349 million, an increase of 4% over the third quarter last year. Our revenue this quarter would have been higher by $5 million, had it not been for the translation impact of the strengthening US dollar, relative to the functional currency of certain foreign subsidiaries. Our offshore capacity continues to expand with 4500 BPO workstations at year-to-date, and now represents more than 60% of our total delivery capability. Our ability to deploy this many global workstations reinforces the rapid scalability of our worldwide delivery platform. Our gross margin this quarter increased 100 basis points to 27.6%, compared to the year ago period. This increase was due primarily to the continued ramp of our offshore business. Our SG&A increased to $51.2 million, or 14.7% of revenue, up from 14% in the year ago quarter. This increase was primarily due to $2.1 million of final expenses, from the completed equity compensation review and restatement of our historical financial statements. Excluding these expenses, SG&A would have been $49.1 million, or 14.1%of revenue which is consistent with the year-ago period. Our third quarter GAAP operating margin was 7.8%, up from 6.9% in the year-ago quarter. Excluding restructuring, impairment and restating-related charges totaling $5.1 million, our operating margin was 9.3%. This is an increase of 90 basis points from the 8.4% operating margin in the third quarter of 2007, which also excludes unusual charges. Our third quarter results also included $3 million of equity compensation expense or about $0.03 per share. This compares to $3.5 million or approximately $0.03 per share in the year-ago quarter. Excluding this expense and…

Thank you, John. In conclusion, 2008 will certainly go down as an extraordinary year, which presented exceptional challenge for both, TeleTech and our clients. Our businesses performed well in light of significant market volatility. We will continue to provide superior results for our clients while maintaining a strict pricing and profit discipline. As in the past, we will continue to conservatively manage our balance sheet, liquidity and capital deployment needs. It is during these difficult times the true staying power of a company is revealed and I firmly believe that our solid balance sheet will enable TeleTech to both, maintain and build upon its leading industry position over the coming years. That belief is reaffirmed by the significant amount of stock we acquired in the third quarter. We completed 75 million in share repurchase and plan to continue this program in the coming months. We will now open the call to your questions. Thank you.

Thank you. (Operator Instructions). One moment please for the first question. Our first question comes from Josh Vogel, Sidoti & Company. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Good morning. Thank you. Ken, just on your last comments there about the share repurchases, I was just curious how many you bought back during the quarter and what was the average price paid?

15.50.

We purchased 4.8 million shares and I believe the average price was around $15.50 per share. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay. Great. And now outside of the peso, what other currencies are you currently hedging against?

Josh, this is John. The other currencies that were hedged against, obviously the Philippine peso. You mentioned the Canadian dollar, the Argentinean peso and the Mexican peso.

And the Philippine.

And the Philippine peso, our primary hedge is in the Philippine. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay and nothing else against the euro?

Yes, a very small amount in the euro. We have a program that's in Great Britain or contract in Great Britain that is done in Spain as well that is paid in euro. So, we have a mix there, but that's a very small amount.

We also have small hedging for with the Aussie, the Kiwi the et cetera. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay. Great. Now, I know you're not discussing '09 and I am not trying to really get a feel of what you want to do on the top line there, but if I am doing my math right, over the last five quarters, you signed over $430 million in new business and I was just curious how much of this business you see contributing to the top line in '09?

Well, again, as we have said in the past, the business that's being signed, most of it right now is going through unusually long ramp periods due to the complexity of the business. The average ramp of a new specialist, it's somewhere in the nine-week timeframe. So, many of these awards are taking nine to 12 months plus just to get to the majority of their ramp. So to answer your question, the business that we saw, the first two quarters of the five quarters that you mentioned, we will definitely fully appreciate and realize in 2009. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay. And just to confirm that was about $200 million in Q3 and Q4 of last year?

Yes, approximately. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay and just lastly, of the new business that's been signed over the last five quarters, has any of it been canceled or curtailed?

I would say a small percentage of it has been maybe curtailed, a little bit of it has been delayed. But for the most part, the majority of has been kept intact. We have had some business which was rather unusual with a client that was very satisfied that after we finished launching them in one region made a decision that they wanted them moved all the way across the world to another region. So, we didn't lose any business, we just simply moved them from one offshore location to another offshore location, and that clearly delayed the rest of their overall ramping. That's now all done and behind us and now we can continue to bring on more business from that client. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Company: Okay, great. Well, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Mr. Bob Evans from Craig-Hallum.

Good morning everyone.

Good morning.

First, maybe John or Ken can you talk about SG&A? It was up sequentially Q2 versus Q3 a decent amount if I am looking at it right. I am just wondering if there's some reason for that or just trying to get an understanding of what trend might be?

Yeah. There's a couple of reasons, Bob and this is John. In the second quarter, we do our update to our various insurance reserves based on actuarial studies. So there's some benefit from that particular update in the second quarter number, which reduced second quarter. Our equity compensation expense for the third quarter is higher. There was a grant that we did in the third quarter for both certain employees and our board members, their annual grant under their plan. So that drove some of it, and then there was a change in the third quarter relative to our incentive compensation plan between the second and the third, which increased our cost in the third quarter.

Can you elaborate on the change in incentive compensation?

Yeah. I mean literally it was the original plan on incentive compensation that was put in place, and it was, and in a situation where it wasn't funding and so there was nothing in the second quarter. That plan was modified by our compensation committee and therefore, there was funding that occurred in the third quarter.

Okay. Looking at Q4 should we perhaps see SG&A down some, given that some of these events appeared to be more Q3 specific?

Yeah. Again we will go through the semiannual process on our actuarial studies, and to the extent that that indicates we should reduce it. I don't expect to see any reduction, the equity comp will be consistent, and again the incentive comp should be consistent.

Okay. Also, Ken could you comment a little more on the sales force? You had referenced that earlier in terms of trying to get new business. Did something change there where you maybe lost a couple of people or can you elaborate in terms of what happened there?

Sure. Really, what has happened is that we have had [monaco] focused on our embedded base, and frankly did not have enough overall focus on what we internally call new logo sales, and so the embedded base was doing pretty well in generating a fair amount of business quarter-over-quarter. But, the reality is that we weren't out and still are not fully out in front of the whole market, benefiting from the amount of opportunities that are out there. So we have been adding dedicated sales people that their soul focus is only to bring on new accounts in the Global 1000. And the fact of the matter is that we messed up, and we are apologetic and not happy about it. But, we probably should have had several more sales people focused in this area. We have the budget dollars for it, and we are actively recruiting as well as we have already brought on several people. The good news is at that this is something that's very correctable and I think the management has a track record here that when we say we are going to do something, we do it and it will bring these people on, and make sure that we are fully invited to every single dance and are participating in every single opportunity that exists.

Now, from an opportunity standpoint, I mean how would you characterize the pipeline of potential opportunities from an industry standpoint, and maybe compare that to you know, how it was a year ago.

You know, we, we continue to believe that the opportunities out there are getting better. We are seeing them, we believe they're bigger. We believe that there is much more willingness of companies that either A, historically have chosen not to outsource, to outsourcer, as well as B we believe that there is much more opportunity from clients that are outsourcing that now want to outsource substantially more. And C, what we are seeing as there is continued theme that we started talking about well over a year ago of consolidation and the fact of the matter is that I would say a high percentage of our growth that took, is taking place thus far in 2008 is all related to vendor consolidation. Our clients are saying they want to do business with one to three vendors world wide, and they are very concerned about some of the smaller vendors, whether it be their financial situation, whether it be just their lack of scale, whether it be lack of technology, and so consequently we think there's a lot of opportunity out there and we are seeing it in our pipeline. We are having very productive meetings with several Global 500 company CEOs, and we believe that those meetings will lead to meaningful business that has the potential of being material in 2009.

Okay. And as it relates to, I know 2009 you are not giving specific guidance, but if I kind of do my math then backup the envelop, I mean, is 80 you know we kind of look at it and say you have a chance to do maybe 80 to 100 basis points of operating margin improvement given where currency trends are and so forth, because you have some benefits as well. Can you give some color or is that in the right ball park.

Yeah. I think, we think that is something that we can continue to do.

Okay. Okay, and final question as it relates to the buyback, you have got 25 million left on the authorization, assuming the valuation is in the ranges that you buyback or lower, should we expect the company to continue to buy back as you are getting to '09?

Yeah. I can't speak for the board. We have a board meeting in December, but what I can tell you is that in the past they have been very supportive of looking at what's the most accretive thing that our company can do. And at this point in time, betting on something that's we know and believe in that is trading as inexpensively as we are, has been somewhat of a no-brainer. And so I think it's safe so to say that our Board will come to a similar conclusion this time around and will give us more authorization. But, we will approach that in the December timeframe, and if we get approval then we will certainly announce that and put it out there.

Okay. Thanks for taking my questions.

Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Shlomo Rosenbaum from Stifel Nicolaus & Company. Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: Hi. Thank you very much for taking my questions. First, I want to talk a little more about the operational aspects of what happens when you have some business, that's sort of falling off as you are ramping up some other business in the context of the margin improvement comments you just made. I would have thought that if you are having some headwinds where the business and the volumes are not materializing that it would be much harder for you guys to improve your margins going forward and realistically, having flat margins is probably a good outcome and I want to ask you what you had thought about that.

Well, I am not sure I fully understand the question. Let me repeat what I think you said. I think what I heard you say that if you have some client that are experiencing volume reductions, wouldn't that create a situation where it would be more difficult to increase your margins. Is that what I heard you say? Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: Yes. In the context of as you have to replace that revenue, you are ramping up other business and usually their business that is falling off is usually higher margin, the business that is ramping up is usually lower margin.

Yes, but I think that what, what is taking place is that a lot of the business that's experienced volume reductions is in Canada and the US and/or Australia. And the business that in fact were winning is business that is going offshore and therefore, what that is doing is taking business that was not performing at levels that we would like in the first place and as we backfill new business, it's better operating margin business offshore.

Shlomo, this is John. And with that the key obviously is as that business comes off, in those in-country markets and we have talked about this before, our strategy is to shrink the footprint that we have in those countries and continue to increase our global footprint. So, we are taking costs out of the business, at the same time we are ramping it down. So, with the higher margin in the offshore business, the reduction of cost on the inshore locations. So we are getting that margin less.

In addition to that, our workstation turn is going up and we have told all of you that one of the most profitable things we can do is drive higher utility out of an existing working workstation. So, it was at 1.2, it is now at 1.3 which means we have picked up a full hour and that is very important to us. And our goal is to continue to add an hour every year. So, we believe that that will continue to drive more profitability. It also means that we don't have to necessarily build as many overall workstations which drive our ROIC up as we get better overall workstation utilization. Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: Okay. And let me just follow up on a similar window on CapEx, if the revenue growth in general is slowing given what's going on in the economy, I would expect that since you characterized the CapEx is 75% to 80% growth CapEx that the capital intensity of the business should decline. But given the context if you are talking about moving out of some geographies into other geographies, is that a fair assumption, if the revenue is not growing or do you just basically saying you are going to be taking down some workstations, building other workstations, the capital intensity remains the same. Is that a clear question?

Shlomo, this is John. We would anticipate that our CapEx would moderate a bit as we go forward for a couple of reasons. One, we do have to build workstations in new market offshore. So we will have that ongoing need. Some of the movement in the migration that we are seeing, though, however, is from for example Asia-Pac into the Philippines where we have quite a bit of capacity and the great news again and this is how we are increasing turns is it is going into that existing capacity because it is a different time zone. So, we are seeing a bit of that which will help us relative to our future capital requirement, but we will continue to be looking for new markets. In South Africa, we launched our first center. We have increased its size and now we are looking to build another facility in South Africa to again continue to take these offshore revenue opportunities, and for 2009, we will be looking for another new market because it is important that we continue to identify those and build them out as the Philippines for us is becoming quite large and quite significant at some point in time we are going to have to put the growth in new locations. Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: So it is expected to moderate a little bit, but not as much as you would think in commensurate with the revenue not growing the same way?

I guess it's commensurate.

No, we haven't given what the revenue growth is going to be yet at this point. So right now our plan is that we are going to continue to keep building workstations and we tend to not build them to sit on them. We are focused on just in time and so I think that you will see that if in fact revenues pull back slightly because of the economy or because of client volumes, then naturally we will slow down on our build out, but at this point in time we think there's more deals to be won and we think that there's more capacity that needs to be built, so that we can continue to bring on these large clients. Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: And I am just going to sneak in one last one on liquidity. How much cash and availability do you guys believe that you need? In other words, how far are you comfortable if the Board was authorized in terms of operations that you need to maintain in terms of liquidity.

I think Shlomo, what we would look for and we did look at this obviously in light of what was going on in the markets is at least a quarter's worth of operating cash or access to that type of money. Obviously our biggest expense is payroll and that's the one that we need to make sure, we can fund on an ongoing basis.

But I think, Shlomo, if you look at the fact that we have generated net free cash flow of over $51 million or so in net cash, I think it is safe to say that regardless of what the Board authorizes, there will be plenty of cash to be able to more than fulfill the authorization and that most likely would not even utilize all of the free cash flow when you think about how a stock purchase plan is executed, the time in which it is done over and the amount that we can acquire just based on overall trading volume. So, that's not something that we are concerned about and we believe it is one of the best aspects of our business and how it is operating as it relates to the amount of net cash that it kicks out to the bottom line. Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel Nicolaus & Company: Thanks a lot

Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Murray Arenson from Janco Partners.

Thanks. Good morning. I was just wondering if you talked a little bit about gross margins, you talked about the outsourcing business and how that has been moving things directionally. If you look out near term over the next couple of quarters, can you talk about what you are seeing there?

Is that another way of asking about pricing or I'm not fully sure I understand the question.

Well my understanding was that the outsourcing or the offshore portion of the business was helping the gross margins and I am just trying to understand the mix given the kind of shifts you are seeing and the spending with some of the customers, how that should impact gross margins near term.

Yes, what I would tell you is that if you look at the last two year trend of our business, somewhere between 85% and 90% of our business has been growing primarily offshore. So, that obviously explains one of the main reasons why our margins have lifted, why our EBITDA and net operating margin continues to expand. So, we see no slowdown in that trend at this point in time. As a matter of fact, we think there's an acceleration to that trend right now, just due to the fact that more and more these Global 1000 companies are coming to an epiphany that the way they are going to make it through 2009 and 2010 is by substantially reducing their costs. And if they are heavily dependent on large amounts of human capital that would happen through engaging an outsourcing partner.

Perfect that helps. I have another question about the working capital side of the business. If you could maybe help me understand a little bit what some of the moving parts where this quarter, as they contributed to free cash flow and maybe what that typically looks like in the fourth quarter for you?

I mean, relative to working capital, obviously in light of what was going on, I mean we are getting real aggressive in managing our working capital both on the collection side to make sure that our receivables are coming down, and also on the payable side making sure that we are paying in the appropriate time frames. You know, the other thing that plays into the change in working capital is payroll periods, and when they fall and so to the extent that we have a payroll right at the end of a quarter. I mean, that has a large bearing on our working capital. We don't anticipate that we are going see any significant reduction in our working capital, our ability to manage it in the fourth quarter.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. Our last question today comes from Howard Smith from First Analysis.

Yes. Good morning and thank you for taking my question. It looks like the international BPO utilization at the mature sites, the sites open more than a year, is down year-over-year, and I was wondering, if you could discuss that and is your sales investment for the new business sales people targeted at these more international BPO or is it across the Board and then I have a follow up? First Analysis: Yes. Good morning and thank you for taking my question. It looks like the international BPO utilization at the mature sites, the sites open more than a year, is down year-over-year, and I was wondering, if you could discuss that and is your sales investment for the new business sales people targeted at these more international BPO or is it across the Board and then I have a follow up?

On the sales side, I will answer the first part of the question and then John will answer the second part. On the sales side, we are increasing sales across the globe, in Europe, in Asia, and in North America. As for the, the international segment, I am going to let John explain to you the variances that you are seeing.

Yeah. Relative to that capacity, Howard, I mean the reason that that utilization is decreasing in the international segment is we are seeing a good migration again to our offshore locations. So we are serving those particular clients in some of our offshore locations. Obviously, we can't, you know, close all of the capacity until, we get a large amount of the client out of any given facility, but that is something that we are constantly managing, and will continue to be managing as we move forward and more of this work is being transitioned again into other locations. So that's why it is down a little bit.

Okay. And then, this is more of a technical question. The $20 to $30 million of currency impact, do you expect to feel in the fourth quarter, could you break that out between the two operating segments? First Analysis: Okay. And then, this is more of a technical question. The $20 to $30 million of currency impact, do you expect to feel in the fourth quarter, could you break that out between the two operating segments?

Howard, I don't have at this point in time. I mean, we will take a look at that and we can get back to you with that, but I don't have it broken between the various operating segments.

Okay. Thank you. First Analysis: Okay. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. That will conclude today's call, we appreciate everyone attending. And we will speak to you soon.

Thank you, this concludes TeleTech third quarter 2008 earnings conference call. All parties may go ahead and disconnect at this time.