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For the call center industry, it’s becoming apparent that the at-homeagent model is here to stay. The at-home-agent model is the most functional approach during uncertain times, safeguarding services from the impact of pandemics, weather, traffic, and unforeseen issues with on-site facilities. Need to go remote in 2020?
Three years ago, very few of us could have imagined a world where most contact center agents would be working from home. While some centers were dabbling with at-homeagents before the COVID-19 pandemic, the unprecedented shift to remote work in early 2020 looks like it could be here to stay.
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Due to the pandemic, 2020 has been the year where many organizations have transitioned to a work-from-home (WFH) model to ensure employee safety. This rise of at-homeagents, coupled with an increase in new contact center agents, has raised concerns over information security.
Many productivity studies were launched early in 2020, sparked by the remote shift, so preliminary results run the spectrum of outcomes: A Stanford study of 16,000 workers saw a productivity increase of 16%. This model allows for agents to work comfortably from home but within a proximal distance for occasional in-person visits.
Our security solutions for work-at-homeagents won recognition in. Concentrix won in the category of Crisis Strategy and Management at the North America Customer Centricity Conference and Awards. This online event, held in conjunction with Arcet Global, celebrates the most customer-centric organizations across North America.
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“We’re all about quality of service, but we also believe our frontline agents must be happy to provide that,” said onPeak’s Senior Director of Operations, John Hunt. This focus on employees translated to a better agent experience and better metrics for onPeak. They no longer have to fight traffic and pay commuting costs.
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April 2020. In the last few weeks, CCaaS solutions, automatic call distributors (ACDs) and dialers that are delivered from the cloud have demonstrated their flexibility in meeting the needs of companies and government agencies, as many organizations have moved their employees and agents from the office to work from home.
M any team leaders have become ‘mother hens’ to their work-at-homeagents, caring for their wellbeing and motivation. Workforce Management (WFM) has come to mean so much more in 2020. Certainly, at Calabrio we have seen how COVID-19 has triggered extreme opportunities and challenges for contact centres.
These results, which provide insight into the work location flexibility that enterprise and contact center executives are going to give their employees in 2022, are well aligned with the results of a similar question that DMG asked of our worldwide audience of leaders at the end of 2020, when there was still hope the pandemic would end sooner.
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