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Stop Believing These 5 Common Myths About Working From Home

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It demands a continuous, long-term investment in monitoring best practices, technology upgrades, and ongoing agent and management training. Myth: At-Home Agents Feel Neglected and Become Disengaged. The key is allowing your at-home agents to enjoy the best of both worlds. We would love to talk.

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The Rising Risk of Call Center Agent Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

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Skybridge Americas is one of very few customer care call centers that had invested early and robustly in the technology, infrastructure, and talent necessary to run large, geographically dispersed at-home agent teams. How are your agents doing during this unprecedented, often confusing, sometimes painful time? It wasn’t easy.

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COVID-19 Rapid Response: Switch To Work-At-Home 8 Critical Questions to Assess Your Technology Readiness

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Many of you are looking for ways to accelerate current plans to transition from on-site to at-home agents. Many more are trying to determine the feasibility of a first-time, rapid deployment of at-home operations. At Skybridge Americas, we have been overseeing high performance teams of at-home agents for years.

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

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Hiring models for high-performing at-home agents and supervisors had long been developed. As a result, tough decisions and large investments had already been made in the I.T. and infrastructure required to remain nimble, quick, and trustworthy – even in times of rapid change. Technologies were rigorously tested.

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6 CX Innovations That Have Advanced at Lightening Speed Since COVID-19

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I would add a 6 th one: Decentralized Call Centers Staffed with At-Home Agents. If you would like to know more about how Skybridge Americas can help you deliver superior customer experience with high performing teams of at-home agents, please reach out. You can read the entire article below. We would love to talk!

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5 Tricks to Treating Your Customers

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You, personally, as the senior leader of a customer care platform, might have found it quite seamless to simply grab your laptop and start working from home this year. It’s a monster. And it’s going to start destroying things and sending your customers running for the hills. Make every call a treat.

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The Future of Contact Centers: Is Your COVID-19 Solution a BandAid or The New Normal?

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Case in point: if your pre-pandemic customer care contact center was already fully transitioned to a remote workforce, comprised of high performing, at-home agents, you were in the lucky minority. Together, we are all learning how powerfully a global pandemic can derail even the best laid plans.