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10 Tips for Handling the Holiday Returns Rush in Your Call Center

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Ask agents from other departments to field frontline calls. Just adding a few agents to your frontline staff can significantly improve service level, reduce caller abandonment and give your frontline agents the little extra support they need during the holiday returns season. Leverage at-home agents.

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

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The global pandemic hit this critical function, and many were left scrambling to keep their operations running, customer service levels up, and their customer data safe. Pindrop , an enterprise voice security company, works with eight of the top 10 banks, three of the top five brokerages, and five of the top seven life insurers.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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Contact Centers spent of much Spring 2020 scrambling to shift agents to work-from-home or bring agent seats back onshore from locations where at home agents simply weren't feasible due to lack of critical infrastructure. COVID-19 changed the entire industry in an instant. Do I move everything to the cloud?