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Contingency Planning With At-Home Agents

Outsource Consultants

Making the answers to common questions easy to find on your website or IVR messaging can free up agents for the inquiries that truly require a two-way interaction. The remote agent model is undeniably the most resistant to growing calls for quarantine – whether self-imposed or government-mandated.

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What Makes A Cloud Contact Center The Customer Experience Optimizer?

Babelforce

This is important because customers expect to use voice interfaces in 70% of interactions by 2023. Many call centers were quickly upended when governments issued work-from-home orders. Interestingly, retention for at-home agents is 80% compared with 25% for in-house agents in the US.

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

pindrop

Most contact centers were unprepared for the magnitude of the shift to work from home and scrambled to take steps to set their agents up with technology and secure VoIP infrastructure at home. Agents and analysts faced productivity issues as environmental changes and technology constraints took their toll.

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Call Center Agent Feedback: Tips & Best Practices for Providing Effective Agent Feedback

Callminer

Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. The right encouragement, or even criticism, could dramatically alter agent performance, both for on-site employees and at-home agents. However, knowing how to deliver feedback can be tricky.