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The At-Home Agent Model is Here To Stay – What You Need to Know

Outsource Consultants

For the call center industry, it’s becoming apparent that the at-home agent model is here to stay. The at-home-agent model is the most functional approach during uncertain times, safeguarding services from the impact of pandemics, weather, traffic, and unforeseen issues with on-site facilities. Need to go remote in 2020?

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4 Ways to Keep Your Remote Agents Engaged

Outsource Consultants

Before 2020, many employers were wary, citing concerns about eroding camaraderie and dwindling productivity as barriers to a work-from-home policy. Implement Gamification Systems. Gamification has been used in team settings to enhance training programs for a long time now. A recent study showed that 80 percent of U.S.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report.

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The Future of Remote Agent Call Centers

Outsource Consultants

Many productivity studies were launched early in 2020, sparked by the remote shift, so preliminary results run the spectrum of outcomes: A Stanford study of 16,000 workers saw a productivity increase of 16%. This model allows for agents to work comfortably from home but within a proximal distance for occasional in-person visits.

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Remote Workforce Management – From Survive to Thrive in 3 Easy Steps

CSM Magazine

M any team leaders have become ‘mother hens’ to their work-at-home agents, caring for their wellbeing and motivation. Workforce Management (WFM) has come to mean so much more in 2020. Certainly, at Calabrio we have seen how COVID-19 has triggered extreme opportunities and challenges for contact centres.