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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

In the past, training has been a barrier to some companies in developing their work-at-home team. If someone is working from home due to mobility or transportation issues – a requirement to come to the office to be trained could be a barrier. But having said that, for us, training always happens in our own offices. Let’s chat.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. The most recent census reports that 21.4% It’s our thing.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025

Calabrio

A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities. By identifying these gaps, you can provide targeted coaching and training to improve individual performance and overall team effectiveness.

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This Call May Be Recorded: How Conversation Intelligence Is Transforming the Contact Center Industry

BlueOcean

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. Importantly for the customer, it can also increase the rate of first-call resolution and improve average handle time.

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How To Manage The Average Handling Time (AHT) For Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

Call Center agents’ main goal is to handle as many calls as possible effectively and without wasting time. However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. What are the appropriate methods to maximize it?

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Beyond KPIs and Metrics: How to Measure Outsourced Call Center Performance

BlueOcean

The math provides us with insights on how to improve the customer experience and gain greater value for the client. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? How does their attrition rate compare to the industry average?