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Understanding the call center agent’s network in a WFH world

Spearline

But that’s not always the case either And, even with our best intentions in asking the agents to be on ethernet, on a good network and in a quiet environment, they can struggle with doing it well enough. With work from home call center agents our main challenge becomes controlling their home environment and network.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

Contact Centers spent of much Spring 2020 scrambling to shift agents to work-from-home or bring agent seats back onshore from locations where at home agents simply weren't feasible due to lack of critical infrastructure. At the same time, Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) emerged as viable technology.