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Is social engineering damaging your contact center?

Talkdesk

This rise of at-home agents, coupled with an increase in new contact center agents, has raised concerns over information security. Some agents working from home are using personal, unsecured networks and new agents may not be aware of security procedures. appeared first on Talkdesk.

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Predictable Outcomes Amidst Unpredictable Times: How Cisco IT kept Contact Center services running from our homes

Cisco - Contact Center

Companies have learned from past experiences to ensure that their applications and data are hosted in more than one data center, preferably in different cities or countries. The start of 2020 brought a new challenge and opportunity to our contact center service – working from home on a global scale.

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5 Ways to Find On-Demand Agents

Working Solutions

Apply a little search engine optimization (SEO) thinking to recruit work-at-home agents.

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PINDROP PULSE FLASH REPORT: Five Insights of COVID-19 in the Contact Center

pindrop

A short history of how the pandemic has unfolded – how contact centers have faired and how fraudsters have taken advantage. As a critical customer interface, contact centers have felt the effects directly, regardless of geography and industry. INSIGHT 2: THE WAVE HITS IN EARNEST.

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Did you hear that? Listening to the voice at the center of your CX strategy

Skybridge

In the earliest months of the pandemic, most customer contact centers were scrambling to react and struggling to keep up with call volumes, customer fears, and the astronomical rise of agent attrition. Hiring models for high-performing at-home agents and supervisors had long been developed.

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Workforce Management in 2021: Better than Ever

DMG Consulting

Identifying methods for improving scheduling flexibility is an enterprise concern and opportunity, although contact centers have it toughest, with little apparent flexibility as they must maintain strict schedules to ensure they have the right number of resources with the necessary skills to respond to the projected volume of interactions.

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Back to School: Will Your Customer Experience Make the Grade?

Serenova

For most contact centers, back-to-school signals the starting line for ensuring you’re prepared to flexibly scale for seasonal business demands, including the expected—and unexpected—spikes in traffic that start now and continue through year-end. Yet, driven by the schedules of two pre-teens, preparation for the unexpected is a must.