EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was updated at 4:45 p.m. to correct location where employees would work. An earlier version incorrectly said they would work at a new employee center.
JOPLIN, Mo. • St. Louis-based Express Scripts is planning to hire up to 100 people in Joplin for customer service jobs.
The Joplin Globe reports the pharmacy benefits management company and Joplin officials announced the plan Thursday.
Express Scripts manages more than a billion prescriptions each year for millions of patients in the U.S.
The company said the customer service representatives will work from their homes after training at the Joseph Newman Business and Technology Innovation Center in downtown Joplin. They will be given all the necessary equipment to work at home as customer service representatives.
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The state of Missouri provided roughly $1 million in incentives through the Community Development Block Grant disaster relief program to create the new jobs.
