Officials of Global BPO Services Corp., which recently bought the company that owns a call center in Watertown, say the sale will not affect the firm's 800 employees here.

Stream Holdings Corp., which has a call center on Arsenal Street, was sold for $200 million in cash plus adjustments July 31.

The new company went public as Stream Global Services Inc. the same day. Stream has world headquarters in Richardson, Texas.

SGS officials said the sale would not affect Stream New York Inc.

"This does not impact jobs or our business in Watertown negatively in any way," said Katherin L.M. Dockerill, SGS senior vice president of marketing and business strategy.

"Stream is now a building company," she said. "Being a public company enables us to have greater resources and greater growth."

As a result of the change, Ms. Dockerill said that the company would soon be adding more sites, more clients and, as a result of an increase in business, a larger sales force.

As to whether there would be employee stock options for the new company, Ms. Dockerill said it was too early to say.

"It's not even a week old yet," she said of SGS.

Stream New York site director Timothy M. Read was similarly positive about the recent corporate changes, noting that Stream was in "a better position to compete globally against people in our sector."

"It puts us in a position to raise additional funds," he said. "We're in a great financial position."

Mr. Read also said he did not expect to see any changes at the local level, where 700 support professionals and 100 staff members are employed.

SGS, which provides technical support and services such as Web and data hosting, has more than 15,000 technical experts and other employees in 30 service provider centers in 16 countries.