SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	9 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	Sep. 30, 2017
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 units and deferred stock units under the StarTek, Inc. 2008 Equity Incentive Plan and our Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The compensation expense that has been charged against income for such awards for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $215 and $745, and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 was $454 and $1,279, and is included in selling, general and administrative expenses. As of September 30, 2017, there was $800 of total unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.82 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.