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Contingency Planning With At-Home Agents

Outsource Consultants

Call centers across the globe are making the difficult decision to limit or suspend operations in their primary locations. In many cases, simply asking employees to work from home is not as easy as it sounds. They resolved any technical issues years ago, and their agents are used to training and working in a remote environment.

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3 Emerging Call Center Markets to Consider in 2021

Outsource Consultants

A strong intercontinental georedundancy strategy, coupled with leveraging at-home agents, is more important than ever. Selecting markets on the rise allows call center leaders to maximize the ROI of their outsourced call centers. Three Emerging Call Center Markets to Watch.

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Call Center Agent Feedback: Tips & Best Practices for Providing Effective Agent Feedback

Callminer

Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. The right encouragement, or even criticism, could dramatically alter agent performance, both for on-site employees and at-home agents. However, knowing how to deliver feedback can be tricky.

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Onward and Upward – Why 2021 Is Poised to Be a Promising Year for the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry

Outsource Consultants

What surprised you the most about how the call center industry responded to uncertainty in 2020? In a matter of days, it seemed that nearly everyone had managed to pivot to an at-home agent model. At-home work is here to stay, at least in some form.

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7 Strategies for Embracing the Work From Home (WFH) Call Center

Serenova

Coronavirus has officially kicked the work from home (WFH) trend into a permanent reality — and the call center is no exception. At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status.

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What Makes A Cloud Contact Center The Customer Experience Optimizer?

Babelforce

First, let’s establish what exactly the “cloud” in “cloud contact center” means. Traditionally, call centers would use software purchased on licenses and stored directly on their computer hardware. Many call centers were quickly upended when governments issued work-from-home orders.

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6 CX Innovations That Have Advanced at Lightening Speed Since COVID-19

Skybridge

I would add a 6 th one: Decentralized Call Centers Staffed with At-Home Agents. If you would like to know more about how Skybridge Americas can help you deliver superior customer experience with high performing teams of at-home agents, please reach out. You can read the entire article below.