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8 Tips to Prepare Your Holiday Contact Center Agents

Calltools

Add notes to your CRM or contact center software during and after each call. That makes it easier for other agents to identify a customer’s needs. Setting up a knowledge base or video-based training will help at-home agents navigate work challenges without contacting you. Enhance Agent Experiences.

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

Outsource Consultants

In order to best serve your customers, agents need to be ready to answer questions and facilitate processes quickly. Luckily, at-home agents love the flexibility and convenience of working from home. Make sure you’re helping new and existing agents understand the best practices for common customer scenarios. .

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The Work-from-Home Revolution & the Engagement Challenge

VocalCom

Cloud technology is critical to provide access to the same tools and data in real time from multiple contact centers, including at home agents, while answering the challenges of quick deployment, security and scalability. Agents need technologies that help them be productive while working from home.

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5 Reasons You Should Use Cloud Calling in 2023

Calltools

Cloud phone systems can cost as little as $10 per agent per month, according to JustCall, which can work out significantly cheaper than other technologies. Remote Flexibility With more people working from home, cloud calling allows you to adopt or maintain a remote or hybrid work model.

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What Makes A Cloud Contact Center The Customer Experience Optimizer?

Babelforce

babelforce’s no-code CRM offers WhatsApp integration so you can utilize the most popular instant messaging application in the world. Interestingly, retention for at-home agents is 80% compared with 25% for in-house agents in the US. Provide self-service options.

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Scheduling in the Gig Economy

Aspect

Studies show that 95% of agents are only willing to drive up to 30 minutes to work. For more specialized skills, contact centers may need to reach out beyond that current geographic boundary, further stimulating the need for part-time work-at-home agents. But scheduling of individuals for the work predicted is quite different.

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Onboarding and Training in the Work-From-Anywhere World: 3 Key Steps to Achieving Excellence

Vistio

>>Keep your agent tech stack simple. When you set expectations of how long your agents are required to be in front of their computers, you should also discuss how much of that time should be used for training and connecting with their colleagues, putting an emphasis on leaving work at work for your at-home agents.