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Top Three Myths of Hiring Remote Contact Center Agents

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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. Here’s why: In 2018, there was nearly five billion dollars in cost savings for U.S.

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Five Tactics to Retain Your Top Call Center Agents

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Retaining call center agents doesn’t occur by chance, it happens by implementing practical, proven retention tactics. Check out these five tactics to retain your top call center agents: 1) Recognize Your Agents. Avoiding job boredom in the contact center is crucial to keeping them around.

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Inbound Call Centers Need to Deliver Exceptional Experiences in an Omnichannel World

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Inbound call centers face rising expectations from their customers to deliver exceptional experiences in an increasingly omnichannel world. Our new 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark surveyed over 2000 consumers across the US, the UK and Australia to get their insights on customer experiences.

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Workforce Management Basics in Today’s Contact Center: Part 1

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For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Workforce Management Basics in Today’s Contact Center: Part 1

NICE inContact

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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The Top Five “Must Have” Contact Center Phone System Features

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Are you one of the almost 40% of organizations that say reducing effort to improve the customer experience is their primary contact center goal for 2018? The best contact center solution is not worth a penny if it’s not up and running. Ease of Integration, Open Interfaces.