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3 Proven Ways Call Centers Can Better Streamline Operations

Chart Your Course

Customer Service is Important to Call Centers. These days, businesses have more options than ever before to customize the live support experience — and technology is playing an increasingly vital role in keeping customers satisfied. Cost savings are integral to the business model of most call centers.

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5 Ways to Better Manage Your Field Workforce in the Cloud

Chart Your Course

However, determining which technology tools to use — and how to make it all work for your team — is another animal altogether. For example, Aspect uses forecasting tools and looks at historical patterns to better determine the number of agents who should be working in your call center at any given time.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. You don’t need to be a scientist to benefit from science money.

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More Data Won’t Turn Employees into High-Performing Machines

Harvard Business Review

A new era of Taylorization has begun, thanks to the widespread penetration of technology at work. So it is probably too soon to get carried away by HR technologies. On the one hand, there is no question that technology has enhanced our ability to quantify every aspect of human behavior, including what we do – and don’t do – at work.

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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. For example, RPA will seldom replace the entire “job” of a call center representative.

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Zappos Killed the Job Posting – Should You?

Harvard Business Review

It’s an old-school idea common to technology companies as far back as the 1980’s, akin to “we know more about the engineers that work for our competitors than they do.”. Hiring Human resources Leadership' Our Insiders are people who might like to work for Zappos someday … today, tomorrow or at some point in the future.”

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In a few minutes, the secretary called back and arranged an appointment for the next day. What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. At the same time, technology has the potential to take us back to Theory X.