For many, working from home for the foreseeable future will be new. Not me. I’ve been working remotely for 12 years. And unlike most home workers, I’m not worried about children and pets noisily wandering into my conference calls. I live alone. Cabin fever and work focus are bigger tickets to me.
With the rise of technology companies, the adoption of working from home or remote workers has increased. Employers are offering their employees the option to work from home on a part-time or full-time basis to combat the heavy competition in the job market – especially here in the Bay Area.
When it comes to staffing with remote agents, your contact center infrastructure can be enabling--or limiting. Cloud solutions are the obvious choice for contact centers that want to leverage the best talent, no matter where it's to be found.
I had the opportunity to speak with Matt Parker, Enterprise Sales Director and Mike Giffin, Solutions Architect at Five9, about a little topic called, ‘Network Connectivity’ – and what it means for the contact center. As a marketer, this isn’t a topic I hear a lot about so when I came up I naturally became interested.
Continuously increasing efficiency in the call center can be a challenge. Consistent efficiency improvement can be obtained with a magic trick – the magic of competition.
Empowering agents with artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the customer and agent experience. By removing repetitive, mundane tasks, AI innovation will give agents the additional time they need to interact with customers’ on a human level and to personalize the customer service process.
Your agents ARE your customer experience. It’s as simple as that. For customers, the agent helping them often makes or breaks their customer experience.
Is agent morale a top challenge for your team? Providing extraordinary customer experience can be tasking to the most experienced agent. Pizza parties, contests, and ping pong tables are fun, but they’re not enough to move the needle.
When companies first launch their business, they are often too wrapped up in startup mode to foresee the needs of business at scale. At some point the inefficiencies of working without formal tools to effectively manage their workforce start to make themselves known and companies realize there are easier ways to work that can also transform the customer experience.
