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Developing a Contact Center Work-At-Home Program

DMG Consulting

While many contact centers, particularly the large ones, had disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in place before the pandemic hit, even if they were rarely tested and updated, surprisingly few included the option of having employees work from home for an extended period of time. working space, security, and more.

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

DMG Consulting

It looks to the future and provides best practices for post-pandemic disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, as well as for the management of work-at-home agents. Voice and screen recording capabilities allow managers to track their remote employees’ performance throughout the day.

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Work from home programs are no longer a reward system

Aspect

50% of millennial agents said they would be interested in an on-demand job. Here are some best practices to consider as you define or enhance your work from home program, specifically for your customer engagement center. Define the Agent Profile. Not everyone makes the perfect work at home agent.

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Contact Center Leaders and Technology Experts Talk Challenges and Solutions for Better CX

Serenova

The group also had questions related to support and collaboration for remote contact center agents. While the benefits of at-home agents to a contact center are measurable, managing, training and engaging remote workers has unique challenges. Click here for resources on best practices and solutions to help.

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Pandemic Proves the Flexibility of CCaaS Solutions

DMG Consulting

But one thing that is not being questioned is the benefit of having a CCaaS solution and other contact center applications such as recording, workforce management (WFM) and quality management (QM), operating in the cloud as they have enabled the transition of agents, supervisors, managers, WFM administrators, QM specialists and business analysts from (..)

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5 Helpful Contact Center Tools for Managers

NICE inContact

Supervisors can identify who needs help, and where, so they can get more out of their one-on-one time with agents. Is your organization monitoring work-at-home agents? The adaptation of remote and at-home agents is forcing managers and supervisors to change the way they manage.