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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

COVID-19 is making clear to US companies and other firms around the world the need for better cost management in the midst of uncertainty. These past few months, we’ve watched contact centers turn to backup plans C and D as work schedules were impacted by stay-at-home orders or their agents’ refusal to go in because of the pandemic.

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5 Tips for Managing Remote or Virtual Contact Center Teams

Fonolo

Managing a contact center team is a challenge at the best of times. If your contact center hasn’t been driven remote by the pandemic, it will likely feel the impact soon — so prepare to go remote now. Managing Remote Contact Center Agents. Here are 5 tips on managing your virtual call center team.

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Yes, you can increase CSAT and NPS during the holidays

Liveops

Contact center managers, meanwhile, can look forward to the potential year-end bonus for hitting year-end customer satisfaction (CSAT) and net promoter score (NPS) goals. With virtual agents, call centers have access to a larger pool of talent, as workers aren’t limited to a certain geographical region.

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Call Centers Go Home: Successfully Managing Remote Front Line Agents

CSR Inc.

Remote or virtual call center agents are an entirely new way of thinking about the workplace. Perhaps surprisingly, managing remote agents can be very similar to managing brick-and-mortar call center agents – with the caution that successfully managing remote front line agents does demand some additional diligence.

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The Future Customer Experience Will Go Virtual

Win the Customer

Customer experience continues down a path of rapidly advancing technology with trends pointing to a virtual experience. From augmented shopping experiences to completely virtual call centers and agents, the future of customer service is already here. Virtual Call Centers.

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Cisco Receives 2020 Contact Center Technology Award from CUSTOMER Magazine

Cisco - Contact Center

This open platform architecture enables our customers to easily add and integrate with advanced cloud applications such as AI-based virtual agents, advanced data analytics, workforce optimization, and other Webex applications, including Webex Experience Management, Webex Calling, and Webex Control Hub.

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5 Tips to Help You Build a Call Center from Scratch

aircall

A virtual call center lets your business hit the ground running more easily. A virtual call center will also allow your team to work remotely. Virtual agents can be hugely advantageous to a call center especially a fledgling one. Don’t neglect your remote agents , if they exist.