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

COPC

What sort of an environment do Work-At-Home agents need? It is very important to ensure that the home environment for the agents is conducive to working long shifts. The obvious benefits of Work-At-Home agents are based around flexibility and business continuity. At COPC Inc.

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Remote Work is Working

Altivon

Of the contact centers surveyed in 2019, 43% allowed at least some of their agents to work from home, while 57% either had made the firm decision to not offer remote work options at all, were in the process of evaluating remote work, or hadn’t made any moves one way or the other. Insight #5: Average speed to answer is holding up well.

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Overcoming Obstacles of a Remote Workforce

NICE inContact

If you wanted to meet with a team on the other side of the country, you booked flights, accommodations, and local transportation to get all the attendees in the same room. Transmitting a file meant waiting on a fax to slowly transcribe an original paper document on the sender’s side to a flimsy, waxy roll of paper on the receiver’s end.

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3 Emerging Call Center Markets to Consider in 2021

Outsource Consultants

A strong intercontinental georedundancy strategy, coupled with leveraging at-home agents, is more important than ever. Consider areas that are actively improving sectors across education, utilities, IT, and public transportation. . Other notable benefits: Young and skilled workforce. High literacy rate (91.8%).