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Work from home programs are no longer a reward system

Aspect

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. Define the Home Office. Coaching requires interactive tools and discipline.

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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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Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance

DMG Consulting

Interaction analytics is automating trend discovery as well as improving agent compliance and reducing fraud. Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) is enabling companies to automate the 50-year-old manual QM process while enabling managers and employees to delight their customers.

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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. Here too, according to the panel, technology can help.

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

Serenova

Forrester has observed that following the pandemic and the move to remote work, companies have had success using “online video game leagues” to “improve social cohesion for at-home agents.” Be sure to communicate that coaching is a tool to identify where they need help, give them the resources they need, and make them more successful.

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Pandemic Speeds Adoption of IA

DMG Consulting

AQM frees QM specialists to concentrate on what their jobs are intended to be – coaching agents and helping them realize their full potential. . The pandemic demonstrated another practical application of IA, using it to oversee and manage at-home agents.

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5 Helpful Contact Center Tools for Managers

NICE inContact

This tool allows managers to search for specific key words, terms or phrases, then create a report showing the trends in your contact center. Knowing this information can help you be prepared with better training and coaching that reflects your center’s needs. Are you scheduling the right agents at the right time?