SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS	3 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS	Mar. 31, 2014
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS	SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS Our share-based compensation arrangements include grants of stock options, restricted stock awards and deferred stock units under the StarTek, Inc. 2008 Equity Incentive Plan, certain awards granted outside of these plans and our Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The compensation cost that has been charged against income for stock option awards, restricted stock and deferred stock units for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 was $402 and $466, respectively, and is included in selling, general and administrative expense. As of March 31, 2014, there was $2,139 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to nonvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.1 years.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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