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Five Customer Service Outsourcing Trends to Expect in 2022

Outsource Consultants

3) Growth of Self-Service Adoption. Traditional customer service, where agents engage with people one-on-one, is a big part of customer service—but it’s not everything. Self-service is customer service too. 67 percent of consumers prefer self-service customer support over live agent assistance.

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Prepare for Take-off – Maximize ROI During the Travel Industry’s Awakening

Outsource Consultants

Luckily, at-home agents love the flexibility and convenience of working from home. Double down on the equity you’ve built across these at-home models to create flexible staffing models that keep you from overstaffing your call center. Contact Outsource Consultants for a free, no-risk consultation to find out.

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What are the mobility capabilities of WFM solutions?

DMG Consulting

Answer: Remote workers, whether performing their job responsibilities off-site temporarily as a result of the pandemic, or agents who regularly rotate between home and contact center locations, as well as dedicated work-at-home employees, depend on mobility to help them effectively and efficiently perform their jobs anytime, anywhere.

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Workforce Management in 2021: Better than Ever

DMG Consulting

But maybe there is another way, one the pandemic brought home for enterprises. DMG Consulting has been talking about the concept of new-gen WFM for 6 years. For this concept to work, contact centers have to be willing to change how they think about and treat their agents, essentially transferring scheduling decision-making to them.

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Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance

DMG Consulting

The service world is also undergoing major innovation in the form of intelligent self-service solutions that customers find compelling and engaging and that are increasingly preferred over live agents to handle all but their most complex requests. Source: DMG Consulting, December 2021.

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Contact Centers’ Road Map to Success in the New Normal

DMG Consulting

It’s bizarre that it took a highly contagious virus to drive so much innovation in the world of service, but this is one of the positive outcomes of this challenging situation. The pandemic has also accelerated the attitudinal shift of consumers toward self-service and digital channels as their preferred modes for service.

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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. Better Utilize Technology.