SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	3 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	Mar. 31, 2018
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 months ended March 31, 2018 was $262, and for the three months ended March 31, 2017 was $229, and is included in selling, general and administrative expenses. As of March 31, 2018, there was $697 of total unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.78 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.