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The New Normal in the Contact Center

24-7 InTouch

Contact centers who invested in technology and redundancy processes, such as an established private cloud and VPN architecture, were able to adapt and transition their entire workforces to secure at-home models faster, minimizing further impact to their client program’s service levels during this rapidly changing time. .

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Remote Workforce Management – From Survive to Thrive in 3 Easy Steps

CSM Magazine

M any team leaders have become ‘mother hens’ to their work-at-home agents, caring for their wellbeing and motivation. In the awful event of a key planning individual becoming ill and that person being the only one who understands how the master forecasting and scheduling spreadsheet works, the entire contact centre is at risk.

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Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance

DMG Consulting

Since the founding of call centers, agents have been paid some of the lowest wages in companies to do a job with little flexibility in working hours, breaks, and vacations.

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

Xaqt

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?