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Keep Your Call Center At-Home Agents Engaged

Callminer

Contact centers especially struggle with how to train, manage, and engage agents properly. Since contact center agents interact with customers daily, it is essential that you create a plan and strategy for keeping at home agents engaged from afar. Tips to Keep At-Home Agents Engaged.

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What are some best practices for at-home agents?

DMG Consulting

Question: What are some best practices for at-home agents? Answer: Here is a list of several best practices for contact center operations that include home-based agents: Invest time in hiring qualified agents. Desktop analytics to monitor application usage.

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Developing a Contact Center Work-At-Home Program

DMG Consulting

Developing a Contact Center Work-At-Home Program. And even BC plans that had work-at-home (WAH) guidelines for agents were unlikely to have documented best practices for supervisors or managers who unexpectedly needed to work remotely. . WAH Considerations for Contact Centers.

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Practical Considerations for Hybrid and Work-at-Home Contact Center Employees

DMG Consulting

Practical Considerations for Hybrid and Work-at-Home Contact Center Employees. Executives are still discussing whether or not contact centers agents will be allowed to work at home on a full-time or hybrid basis after the pandemic, but I believe the decision has already been made.

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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. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market Report.

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Important post-COVID strategies for the call center

Tethr

Here are some areas contact centers are giving a little extra attention to after dealing with the side effects of the illness that shook up the whole world. In most industries, there was an enormous spike in customer contacts as soon as the COVID-19 outbreak hit. A real strategy for sudden increased call volumes.

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This Holiday Season will Belong to the Creative Contact Center Staffers

NICE inContact

That’s terrific news for workers, but contact centers planning to staff up for the holiday season must be sweating a little. So, yes, contact centers who need to staff up to meet holiday demands are going to face some additional challenges this year. Is it getting hot in here? It’s worth thinking about.