This article mainly aims at investigating the inter-relationship between cost of human activity and social-professional relations of labor at a governmental call center. It consists of a diagnosis in Ergonomics of Activity considering three analytical dimensions: labor socio-professional relations, cost of human activity and well being/discomfort experiences. The methodological approach was the Ergonomic Work Analysis - EWA. The analysis of the results pointed out an association between labor socio-professional relations, organization and conditions. In this sense, improvements or difficulties in one of these dimensions trigger positive or negative consequences on the others. The critical aspects in the context of producing call center services interfere in the socio-professional relations of labor since labor organization demands interactions marked by bureaucracy, authoritarianism, inflexibility and control, while labor conditions contribute to inflame constant interpersonal conflicts between both workers from the same or from different hierarchic levels.
call center; ergonomics of activity; cost of human activity
