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Top Three Myths of Hiring Remote Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

Hiring remote workers can be a competitive advantage for companies, especially contact centers. But there are a lot of misconceptions about remote workers and how they impact a contact center’s productivity and culture. Companies that offer a remote work program report 63% less unscheduled absences ( PGI, 2013 ).

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Implement Continuous CX Improvements in Your Contact Center

NICE inContact

In the second episode, Building Continuous CX Improvements in Your Contact Center, Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, shared his expertise regarding how to build an all-star contact center. CES – The Customer Effort Score was introduced by the CEB (now Gartner) in 2013.

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Is social engineering damaging your contact center?

Talkdesk

This rise of at-home agents, coupled with an increase in new contact center agents, has raised concerns over information security. According to research by La Salle University in Pennsylvania , in 2013 the average call center had one fraud call for every 2,900 calls received. appeared first on Talkdesk.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

Contact Centers appreciate: “We got our customer support sorted the day we started using Casengo to manage emails and social media posts.” Contact Centers appreciate: Enchant enables better collaboration of support teams making sure nothing falls through the cracks. and cloud-based call center offerings.

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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. The calls that do go through to the contact center agent are for more critical interactions — involving complexities, emotions or higher values. Not going away.

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It Turns Out, Customers LIKE Email

NICE inContact

As far back as 2013, Forbes was publishing articles like, 5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Miserable and How To Get Rid Of Email In Your Company. In its second annual global research study of businesses , NICE inContact set out to compare perceptions of business contact center leaders and consumers in key areas of customer experience.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. So, what comes next?