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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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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. This rise of at-home agents, coupled with an increase in new contact center agents, has raised concerns over information security. appeared first on Talkdesk.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

In February 2020, 7 million jobs were open in the US, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%. It dropped to 63% until it normalized around 2013. Other factors include automation of routine jobs, the drug addiction crisis as overdose deaths jumped to 30% in 2020, and a lack of childcare infrastructure. It’s a solved problem.

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100+ Customer Experience Stats to Prepare for 2023

CCNG

Zendesk, 2013) 89% of consumers began doing business with a competitor following a poor customer experience. Forrester, 2022) In 2022, an average of 59% of customers trust the brands they interact with, 2 percentage points higher than the 57% of customers who trusted brands in 2020.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

According to Walker , a customer intelligence consulting firm, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B. Contact Centers appreciate: “We got our customer support sorted the day we started using Casengo to manage emails and social media posts.”

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Time to Talk Seriously about Speech Analytics in the Contact Center

Aspect

Get ready for the next big thing in contact center workforce optimization: Speech Analytics. Even though speech analytics was introduced to the contact center industry back in 2003, Aberdeen Group reports that only about 15% of contact centers currently use speech analytics.

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We’re Heading to Nashville for Customer Contact Week 2020

Serenova

The Serenova team is preparing to kick off a busy 2020 events season. By combining Serenova’s CCaaS with intelligent, native WFM from ProScheduler, contact centers will have a seamless and innovative way to ensure the right staffing, at the right time, for optimal cost efficiencies and exceptional customer experience.