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Deep CX: My Interview with Sean Hammerle, Chief Operating Officer of ONQ

BlueOcean

I first met Sean back in June of 2022 when he was awarded the title of Best Contact Center Executive at The Contact Center World Awards in Orlando, Florida. Because nobody wakes up as a 13-year-old and says, “Oh my gosh, I want to be in the contact center space.” So tell me how you landed here, Sean.

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How is the labor shortage affecting your industry? (and how can Conversational AI help?)

Interactions

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “The average number of live job openings in call, contact and customer care centers advertised on Ziprecruiter.com in February was more than double that of the average the year earlier before the pandemic, according to the recruitment platform.”. Travel and Hospitality.

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Serving Customers in the Face of Crisis: Redux + NEW AUDIBLE VERSION

Lithium

What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. On top of the increased demand, major airline employee strikes have decimated staffing levels across Europe.

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Servicing Customers in the Face of Crisis - Redux

Lithium

What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. On top of the increased demand, major airline employee strikes have decimated staffing levels across Europe.

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Hospitality Brands: Facing the Pressure with Digital Solutions

Lithium

The frustrations of dealing with the various customer care teams aren't generally baked into their travel plans. It's crucial that you stay relevant with the new customers but in a way that might alienate your current customer base. Irish Airline Ryanair has taken this in stride with their viral TikTok account.

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Customer Care: Dealing with a crisis you couldn’t plan for

Qualtrics

Customer Care Managers are used to dealing with regular surges in demand. Most customer care centers (also referred to as contact centers) have an established process, planned months in advance to ensure they cope adequately and maintain the customer experience. The results can be drastic.

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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. Would you consider that a great customer experience? Would you believe they actually cared about how the experience was? Would you ever use that airline again? Technology is on your side.