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Call Center Metrics and KPIs to Measure Performance and Productivity

CCNG

There is a great deal of debate about what metrics call centers should measure now, especially with COVID-19 and the accompanying shift to work-at-home agents, staffing shortages, and persistent supply chain issues straining customers’ patience. What metrics should call centers and BPOs focus on?

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The Future of Remote Agent Call Centers

Outsource Consultants

Are remote call center agents a part of your future plans? In a short time, businesses that rely on call center agents found their teams dispersed across remote home offices. Call Center Trends for Remote Work in 2022. Agents Are Calling Their Shot.

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The Gig Economy: Why At-Home Agents Perfectly Complement Your Outsourced Customer Service

Advantage Communications

The gig economy is booming, allowing companies to hit workforce targets in a market where skill shortages are a huge concern. Did you know that homesourcing can be the perfect complement to your company’s current outsourced customer service program ?

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5 Benefits of Blended Call Center You Should be Aware of

OctopusTech

Utilizing the time of agents is currently one of the most challenging aspects of the call center industry. Often, call center supervisors can be seen distributing and redistributing resources repeatedly to different departments and operations. Blended call centers. What is a blended call center?

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The Rising Risk of Call Center Agent Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

Skybridge

For so many organizations, survival has depended on whether their employees could even do the job remotely and how quickly they could be back up and working from home. For brands that have always used onsite call centers to care for their customers – and for the agents who worked onsite – this has been a particularly challenging time.

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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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Rising Wages and the Contact Center Industry

Outsource Consultants

This influx of business has put a strain on foreign markets, which has caused the costs of their outsource contact centers to go up. Of course, there are still price differences among domestic BPOs due to factors such as location and call center size, so there are opportunities to minimize the financial impact.