Advantage Communications

JUNE 4, 2019

Today, we live in a connected world where workers are able to work for the brands they love from any corner of the globe. That’s why the contingent workforce, which is made up of contractors, freelancers and consultants, now makes up a staggering 30 percent of the entire US Workforce.

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CustomerServ

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Let’s break down a few general trends we expect to see based on our experience. Sadly, some companies are downsizing, layoffs are occurring, demand has slowed, and for many companies, volumes are down (a trend that impacts headcount needs). So, what’s in store for 2023 in our beloved BPO industry? Here we go…. Onshore cost surge.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 5, 2020

Set up a daily communication session between supervisors and each at-home agent. Part of each supervisor’s job should be to keep at-home agents informed of all work-related meetings and to make sure their agents are well. Use internal chat for handling most agent inquiries. working space, security, and more.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 8, 2022

One common pain point among both clients and BPO providers: wages have been rising steadily throughout 2021, and experts predict that this trend will continue into 2022. There have been many changes in the global economy over the past year. Domestic Wage Increases: Now and Future. From October 2021 to October 2022, the USA saw a 9.77

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Insite Managed Solutions

MAY 23, 2013

Top 10 Technological Contact Center Trends Cloud: Cloud-based infrastructure is the fastest growing area in the call center industry, which DMG predicts will almost double between 2013 and 2015. Budgets are Trending. Top 10 Technological Contact Center Trends. Related Posts. Jenine Kent. 2018-10-03T15:02:59+00:00. Nicola Behr.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 13, 2016

This tool allows managers to search for specific key words, terms or phrases, then create a report showing the trends in your contact center. inContact Workforce Management helps you forecast trends to better staff your contact center during these busy times, preventing instances of over and under scheduling.

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Calltools

MARCH 8, 2023

Cloud phone systems can cost as little as $10 per agent per month, according to JustCall, which can work out significantly cheaper than other technologies. Remote Flexibility With more people working from home, cloud calling allows you to adopt or maintain a remote or hybrid work model.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

Companies, especially their contact centers, have figured out how to apply IA findings on a historical basis and are starting to take advantage of its real-time information, a trend that is paying off in companies that are willing to change their processes, something that the pandemic may have helped along.

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Skybridge

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is, while there had been a growing trend of call centers moving their staffs out of office buildings and into at-home workspaces, that trend was moving pretty slowly. How are your agents doing during this unprecedented, often confusing, sometimes painful time? Host other gatherings for smaller groups.

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Skybridge

JULY 21, 2020

He talks about 5 CX trends that were already in the making before the pandemic but have accelerated dramatically as a result of it. I would add a 6 th one: Decentralized Call Centers Staffed with At-Home Agents. 5 Customer Experience Trends That COVID-19 Is Only Accelerating. We would love to talk! by Stephen Fioretti.

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Aspect

JANUARY 12, 2018

Tapping for-hire drivers, each batch of deliveries is essentially a “gig” in the quickly growing trend of the Gig Economy. Studies show that 95% of agents are only willing to drive up to 30 minutes to work. In 50 cities across the U.S.,

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Skybridge

MAY 10, 2022

These 5 Emerging CX Trends Will Determine Your Brand’s Success. In the earliest months of the pandemic, most customer contact centers were scrambling to react and struggling to keep up with call volumes, customer fears, and the astronomical rise of agent attrition. Get the breakdown from North America’s leader in customer care.

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VocalCom

JUNE 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic strongly accelerated the remote working trend. 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 ). Agents need technologies that help them be productive while working from home.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

DMG, a leading independent contact centre research and consulting firm, annually conducts reports on the workforce optimisation (WFO) industry, including market trends and challenges, predictions and vendor market share, as well as an extensive customer satisfaction survey to measure end-user experience with vendors and their products.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It looks to the future and provides best practices for post-pandemic disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, as well as for the management of work-at-home agents. This year’s Report discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the short- and long-term future of this increasingly important sector.

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pindrop

APRIL 30, 2020

Most contact centers were unprepared for the magnitude of the shift to work from home and scrambled to take steps to set their agents up with technology and secure VoIP infrastructure at home. Agents and analysts faced productivity issues as environmental changes and technology constraints took their toll.

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Advantage Communications

MARCH 12, 2019

Advantage Communications is proud to announce the launch of its brand-new ebook, which looks at the benefits of stay-at-home agents and how they can be the perfect complement to an organization’s existing brick-and-mortar contact center solution.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Related Article: Work-Life Balance for the At-Home Agent: 7 Ways to Encourage Healthier Habits in a Post-Pandemic Workplace. Keep More Agents On Board. The Great Resignation isn’t over , and the trend can be especially tough in a high-turnover industry like contact centers and support centers.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 23, 2016

They want to scale up, scale down, they can bring in work-at-home agents and remote agents. As people want to leverage new technologies out there and new deployment models, they’re looking for flexibility of uses. Learn how you can achieve your business goals with inContact.

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COPC

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Transcom is a global customer experience specialist providing CX advisory, customer care, sales, technical support and collections services through their extensive network of contact centers and work-at-home agents. From reactive trouble-shooting to active solution-finding.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Virtual, or utilizing “at-home” agents. Forecasting: Know your estimated monthly contact volume and ask the outsourced contact center partner how they will staff your business trends. There are three primary options when partnering with an external provider: Internal, or inside your own four walls.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

Interaction analytics is automating trend discovery as well as improving agent compliance and reducing fraud. During the past year, it’s become increasingly common for companies to transcribe a majority of their calls to gain the insights needed to improve handling and reduce the need for customers to call.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 9, 2021

Contact centers need to provide supervisors with tools and technology that give them the same visibility to manage their agents whether they are on-site or remote. These include applications that automatically identify agent performance trends and opportunities and alert supervisors in real time when help is needed.

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 8, 2020

But winners and losers will be crowned as leaders try to navigate this period of disruption and forecast for future trends. The traditional call center powerhouses with weak work-at-home solutions are hurting. . COVID-19 makes it nearly impossible to predict the future demands of call center organizations.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the likelihood that most companies will have more work-at-home agents then pre-pandemic, providing easy access to up-to-the-minute knowledge is more important than ever – after all, in a WAH model, it’s not as simple as turning to the agent beside you to get an answer to something you might not know.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Technology outsourcing At home agents 62

Talkdesk

MARCH 14, 2018

Three talent trends emerged from Deloitte’s 2017 global contact center survey that point to the need to rethink the way contact centers handle staffing. These tools can be used to manage agents by pinpointing important moments in calls that can be addressed during coaching sessions.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2022

And from an employer perspective, many candidates in the labor market are looking for at-home opportunities. Your technical infrastructure, onboarding and training strategies, workforce management, and company culture need to be optimized for the at-home agent experience in order to deliver for both your customers and your employees.

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Altivon

JUNE 13, 2020

Of the contact centers surveyed in 2019, 43% allowed at least some of their agents to work from home, while 57% either had made the firm decision to not offer remote work options at all, were in the process of evaluating remote work, or hadn’t made any moves one way or the other.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers. If BPOs are not in front of this trend, they risk losing revenue and seat count to this new class of competitors. company and speak with a call center agent in Bangalore.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From its humble beginnings as a hat business founded by German nationals who fled Europe in 1938, to a global corporation with five brands, Columbia Sportswear is made up of real people who are passionate about the outdoors. That passion also extends to delivering outstanding customer service.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

While embraced by many, there is still a contingent that has been hesitant to adopt this new trend, for reasons we will explore here. There are so many distractions in people’s homes, we couldn’t possibly expect them to be productive while not directly in our line of sight” is a common argument.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The playbook for the “new normal” will likely follow three major trends: the migration to the cloud, digital transformation, and the adoption of smart technologies (artificial intelligence and automation).

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Real estate Self service Enterprise 48

Vistio

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re asking agents to do so much, much more as customer expectations have risen, call volumes have risen because people were at home getting angry about a bunch of things. We’re regressing a little bit, but I think it’s something that we should talk about.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Keep an eye on the AI trend. It can also be used to hold agents accountable for their performance and flag agents that might require additional training or correction. The evolving mechanism behind these trends are speech analytics driven by natural language processing (NLP.) Virtual, or utilizing “at-home” agents.

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