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Contingency Planning With At-Home Agents

Outsource Consultants

The remote agent model is undeniably the most resistant to growing calls for quarantine – whether self-imposed or government-mandated. Outsource call centers that have been running an at-home model for years aren’t scrambling to prepare themselves for a workplace exodus, they’re already doing it successfully.

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

Outsource Consultants

As we close out a year filled with disruption, uncertainty, dark clouds, and silver linings, Outsource Consultants President and Founder Corey Kotlarz reflects on 2020’s challenges and successes, and his thoughts as we usher in a new year. Certainly, offshore outsourcing will remain an excellent option, but its lead has evaporated.

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Five Customer Service Outsourcing Trends to Expect in 2022

Outsource Consultants

If customer service is a priority for your organization, this week is a perfect time to consider new ways you can improve customer service outsourcing. And don’t be fooled — businesses that outsource customer service are not dodging their responsibility to their customers, they’re embracing it. 2) Strategic Partnerships.

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4 Ways to Reduce CX Outsourcing Costs in 2022

Outsource Consultants

In the outsourcing and customer service industry, wage growth has made it next to impossible to find workers without added financial output. With this in mind, Outsource Consultants has come up with some innovative ways for you to cut costs related to customer support. Don’t make it more complicated than it already is.

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The Future of Remote Agent Call Centers

Outsource Consultants

This model allows for agents to work comfortably from home but within a proximal distance for occasional in-person visits. Your HQ or “hub” feeds the decentralized “spokes” of your at-home agents, with in-person visits typically narrowed around ongoing training or remedial supervision for under-performing team members.

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The New Trend in Outsourced Call Center Solutions: 6 Ways At-Home-Agents Benefit Your Customer Service

Advantage Communications

That’s why the contingent workforce, which is made up of contractors, freelancers and consultants, now makes up a staggering 30 percent of the entire US Workforce. Today, we live in a connected world where workers are able to work for the brands they love from any corner of the globe.

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The Outsourcing Shuffle: 4 Ways COVID-19 is Changing the Face of the BPO Industry

Outsource Consultants

The traditional call center powerhouses with weak work-at-home solutions are hurting. . High-density populations and lower cost conditions in countries like India and the Philippines (attractive outsourcing characteristics normally) have exposed the vulnerability of each nation’s infrastructure to contain the current health crisis. .