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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Proactively prepare your contact center for Black Friday.

Spearline

With the built-up excitement for Black Friday about to be unleashed at the end of the week across all retail stores and websites, it’s another sector that can easily get affected and should be prepared for the increase in traffic: Contact Centers. increase since the financial crisis in 2008. billion, a 4.3%

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Using Plain Language & Personalization in the Contact Center for Better CX

NICE inContact

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. You’re achieving higher first-call resolution (FCR) rates. You’re lowering call volume. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center.

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What Happens to Customer Service When Unemployment Hits Historic Lows?

BlueOcean

US unemployment rate as fantastic news – it’s an astronomical improvement over the 10% unemployment rate after the 2008-09 Great Recession. But there’s a hitch for folks who are tasked with hiring, especially those hiring for contact center teams: when more people are working, there are fewer active job seekers.