SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	9 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	Sep. 30, 2014
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION 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 expense that has been charged against income for stock option awards and restricted stock for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 was $343 and $1,207, respectively, and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 was $398 and $1,255, respectively, and is included in selling, general and administrative expense. As of September 30, 2014, there was $1,632 of total unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.9 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.

+ References+ Details