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Enabling a Mobile Contact Center Workforce with Aspect® Workforce Optimization™ Version 20

Aspect

Some organizations even resorted to agents using their personal cell phones as tools of customer service. Service suffered, but many organizations found that sending agents home could not only work , but in fact, work quite well. . O rganizations simply did the best they could.

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The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing In-House Contact Centers. Is Outsourcing the Answer?

BlueOcean

We also took a look at how outsourcing your customer care to the right contact center partner may enable your organization to circumvent these obstacles without sacrificing commitment to your customers. An outsourced partner can offer a number of benefits in this scenario. Ensuring Business Continuity.

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How to Ease the Pain of Scaling Your Contact Center

BlueOcean

Maybe it’s time to consider the benefits of outsourcing some or all of that customer care volume. Hit us up for a current client roster so you can see for yourself the positive impact of outsourcing. This is yet another element your outsourcer takes off your shoulders – and is once again built into the cost of an agent hour.

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Delivering a great customer experience during open enrollment

Talkdesk

During last year’s open enrollment period, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported more than 5.78 million calls related to healthcare coverage to its contact center. In addition, a number of Talkdesk’s healthcare customers typically double their contact center workforce to meet the surge in calls.

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Pandemic Compounds 2020 Hurricane Season

Working Solutions

April Wiita poses a probing point in a new Contact Center World piece: As the Pandemic Continues: Is Your Customer Service Ready for Hurricane Season? As vice president of Customer Success at Working Solutions, she is leading clients’ on-demand contact center workforces through the pandemic—just as she’s […].

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An Introduction to the Virtual Call Center

Noble Systems

Virtual call centers offer many benefits for both businesses and their employees. One of the biggest benefits to a virtual call center platform is the cost savings – even compared to outsourcing. The virtual call center means reduced expenses for rent and operating costs. Reduce upfront and operational costs.

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Tired of Low-Cost Offshore Vendors? It’s Time to Try a Nearshore Contact Center

TLC Associates

Even name brands with the recognition to maintain stronger pipelines are hard-pressed to hire agents during seasonal spikes (for that reason, preparing now for holiday season customer service should be of particular importance). Nearshore contact centers are subject to a different set of conditions. A Final Thought.