 On March 22 Verizon formally opened its new customer service and operations center, staffed by nearly 1,000 employees from the Northern New Jersey region. The 150,000-square-foot center is located at the Eisenhower Corporate Campus in Livingston.
The Eisenhower Campus, located at 290 West Mt. Pleasant Ave., was formerly occupied by Bellcorp and Prudential. The campus offers a full-service cafeteria, physical fitness center, teleconferencing facilities and other amenities. Not far from Route 280, it also offers easy access for employees being relocated from other Verizon facilities in the region.
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Fortune magazine has ranked Verizon No. 1 in the telecommunications sector of the publication's 2010 list of the World's Most Admired Companies.
Verizon received the top ranking in six out of nine reputation attributes: innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, quality of management, long-term investment and quality of products and services. Fortune's Most Admired Companies list is based on surveys of executives, directors and analysts who were asked to rate companies in their own industry.
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 Local parent-teacher associations, chambers of commerce, athletic boosters, libraries and other nonprofit organizations in three Mid-Atlantic states now have an easy way to earn money for their organizations.
Verizon's Velocity Program offers nonprofits in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware the ability to earn donations when their members or supporters purchase certain Verizon products: FiOS TV, FiOS Internet, High Speed Internet, Freedom Calling, Long Distance, and DIRECTV (through Verizon's marketing relationship with the satellite-TV provider).
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 Verizon New Jersey President Dennis Bone was among the speakers at the "Social Media for Public Officials" Statewide Conference on the impact social media is having. The event was held March 30 in Newark and hosted by the New Jersey League of Municipalities (NJLM) Education Foundation, Inc. Verizon was one of the event's sponsors.
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