<ARTICLE> 5
<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from TeleTech
Holdings, Inc.'s 1996 second quarter Form 10-Q and is qualified in its entirety
by reference to such Form 10-Q filing.
</LEGEND>
       
                             
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