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The Future of Remote Agent Call Centers

Outsource Consultants

Are remote call center agents a part of your future plans? In a short time, businesses that rely on call center agents found their teams dispersed across remote home offices. Call Center Trends for Remote Work in 2022. Agents Are Calling Their Shot. Better Performance.

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4 Ways to Keep Your Remote Agents Engaged

Outsource Consultants

Before 2020, many employers were wary, citing concerns about eroding camaraderie and dwindling productivity as barriers to a work-from-home policy. However, after taking the remote work model for a mandated test drive, many employers – including outsource call centers – have embraced the idea as a permanent option.

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Is social engineering damaging your contact center?

Talkdesk

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. In some cases, organizations saw themselves dealing with more calls while transitioning to a WFH practice.

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7 Strategies for Embracing the Work From Home (WFH) Call Center

Serenova

Coronavirus has officially kicked the work from home (WFH) trend into a permanent reality — and the call center is no exception. At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status.

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An Undeniable Choice for Current Times: Move your Contact Center Virtual for the Future to Solve Old Problems, Boost Agent Satisfaction and Drive Productivity

SharpenCX

Agents juggle phone calls, quickly type out emails and talk down angry callers. We’ve seen the typical call center in TV shows or in movies. This scene makes for good drama, but today contact centers look different. . It’s not a shock that turnover rates in contact centers hover between 30-45%.

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The Work-from-Home Revolution & the Engagement Challenge

VocalCom

To operate the switch, offering intuitive and efficient digital tools for the contact centers workforce is crucial. Finding new ways to engage, train and manage agents is key: a staggering 74% of call center agents are at risk of burnout ( Toister Solutions ). call center is that HR methods adapt too.

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Did you hear that? Listening to the voice at the center of your CX strategy

Skybridge

For North American brands and the customer care teams who support them, 2020 launched a period of upheaval, unforeseen challenges, and wildly fluctuating consumer needs. But the truth is, a handful of customer care leaders were ready for 2020. Hiring models for high-performing at-home agents and supervisors had long been developed.