BlueOcean

JULY 15, 2024

We explore the five biggest challenges of in-house contact centers below. We also took a look at how outsourcing your customer care to the right contact center partner may enable your organization to circumvent these obstacles without sacrificing your commitment to your customers.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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Aspect

JANUARY 12, 2018

Other industries are quickly catching on for services such as furniture moving, dog walking and at-home makeup styling and the contact center isn’t far behind. In the contact center, you can think of customer contacts as representing the work to be done (or the packages to be delivered in the case of Amazon).

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BlueOcean

JULY 15, 2024

We explore the five biggest challenges of in-house contact centers below. We also took a look at how outsourcing your customer care to the right contact center partner may enable your organization to circumvent these obstacles without sacrificing your commitment to your customers.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Poly , formerly Plantronics and Polycom have announced the additions of the EncorePro 300 headset and MDA 500QD series audio processor to its industry-leading portfolio of devices for the modern-day contact center. The MDA 500QD Series is designed for organizations moving their contact center to the cloud.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The latest news from the workforce market seems to point out that the contact center industry has settled for a clear model. Maybe a surprise for some and confirmation for others, but the contact center industry seems to have adapted quite well to the new reality of remote work. The same J.D.

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Aspect

JANUARY 21, 2019

So, it’s not surprising that contact center employees, like the rest of the human race, would like to be able to make their lives easier. Unfortunately, the contact center environment has a few more limitations. And happy employees are vital to an effective contact center.

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VocalCom

JUNE 22, 2020

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 ). Contact Center . The new paradigm of Work.

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Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Clearly, employee engagement is of paramount importance to an overwhelming majority of contact center executives today. Figure 2: Contact Centers Willing to Change to Accommodate the Millennial Workforce.

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TLC Associates

JULY 17, 2019

Yet when the stakes are even higher, i.e. a business searching for a contact center to represent their brand and increase their revenue, some still choose to jettison quality in favor of a lower cost. Here are some of the benefits of nearshore contact centers that show they might be right for you.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 8, 2019

Contact centers have been hiring increasing numbers of work-at-home agents in recent years and it looks like this trend is expected to grow. According to the National Association of Call Centers, over 50% of contact centers in the United States tout that some percentage of their agents are now working from home.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Calabrio

MARCH 30, 2016

A LinkedIn study found the number of data scientists has doubled over the past four years. Customer consciousness is the byproduct of an organization employing data to be more people-centric, and the contact center is the origin of the customer. What types of conversations in the contact center lead to higher revenue?”.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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Verint

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As Ken Landoline, principal analyst at OVUM, stated in his blog, Back-Office Integration Coming to the Forefront in Customer Engagement , a number of trends are making it easier to link these two functions, including: In-sourcing previously outsourced contact center functions. The increase in channel digitization.

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Balto

APRIL 20, 2023

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Contact centers find themselves at a critical juncture. Contact center leaders are tasked with creating as much value as possible with as few resources as possible, without sacrificing the customer or agent experience. How are they doing this?

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