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4 Ways to Keep Your Remote Agents Engaged

Outsource Consultants

Before 2020, many employers were wary, citing concerns about eroding camaraderie and dwindling productivity as barriers to a work-from-home policy. However, after taking the remote work model for a mandated test drive, many employers – including outsource call centers – have embraced the idea as a permanent option.

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

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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. Set Goals — Just like lowering AHT, you call center agents should always be aiming toward metric goals.

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The 3 “I”s to Empower Your Call Center Supervisors in 2021

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Luckily, solutions have emerged, like gamification, to give supervisors fun and motivating incentives that target key performance metrics, such as: Best CSAT agent score. These incentives can be shared with all your agents and integrated into existing solutions and third-party tools. Lowest AHT. Highest FCR. They should.

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How to Move to a Work-At-Home Model When a Rapid Response is Required

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This means that most organisations have been left ill-equipped to manage the requirement for the rapid deployment of Work-At-Home solutions necessitated by the spread of COVID-19. What sort of an environment do Work-At-Home agents need? Will the internet cope with surges in traffic if more people work from home?

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Workforce Optimization and GigCX: An In-depth Interview with CX Subject Matter Expert, Terry Rybolt

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Leveraging over 20 years of business process outsourcing and experience, Terry is one of the subject matter experts on technology, remote working, customer experience (CX), and GigCX. Having more gamification, having more activity and engagement in this, that’s really critical in today’s workforce. That’s number one.