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AFNI Call Center Under Fire for Allegedly Packing Trainees in Elbow-to-Elbow Amidst COVID-19
Current and former trainees at the an AFNI call center in Tuscon have complained they were packed elbow-to-elbow as recently as April 1, fearing for t…
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Noble Accelerates Contact Center Transition Home
Noble Systems announced it can deploy Noble Contact Center Remote within 48 hours, assisting businesses with a rapid transition to a work from home en…
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How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way - a Weekly Update (Week Two)
Tips from a customer experience CEO on how to keep maintain high levels of customer service during the COVID-19 crisis.
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NorthStar Home Chooses 8x8 for WFH Support During COVID-19
With the help of 8x8, North Star Home is now allowing employees and contact center staff to stay connected and complete their daily jobs from the safe…
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TMC Labs Recognizes Winners of 2019 CUSTOMER Innovation Award
TMC Labs recognizes innovators in the Customer Experience space who are helping organizations future-proof their businesses while maximizing customer …
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Airship Enabling High-Impact Customer Engagement During COVID-19 Pandemic
Airship is giving its web notification solution to businesses free to manage customer engagement and experiences during the coronavirus crisis.
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UK-based AI Company Introduces CoronaBot to Handle Basic Call Center Queries
The need for effective, timely customer support is always present, but during times of global emergencies, the need becomes even more urgent. Most cal…
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CUSTOMER Magazine Announces Winners of 4th Annual Workforce Optimization Innovation Awards
TMC announced the winners of the 2019 Workforce Optimization Innovation Awards, presented by CUSTOMER magazine.
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How COVID-19 Is Testing My Leadership Skills and What It Is Teaching Me Along the Way - A Weekly Update (Week One)
In the face of an unprecedented teleworking environment due to COVID-19, how can business leaders guide their teams to success in uncertain times?
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Sitel Migrates to Teleworking, Hiring 10,000 New Associates
Contact center outsourcing firm Sitel has transitioned its workforce to remote technologies and is hiring 10,000 new associates during the COVID-19 cr…
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Call Center Agents on the Front Lines in Coronavirus War
Call center agents are increasingly fearful for their health and safety as they are forced by employers to work in crowded buildings during the COVID-…
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US Call Center Workers in Crowded Buildings Terrified of COVID-19 Spread
Call center workers throughout the U.S. are sounding the alarm about being forced to work in crowded buildings with little or no precautions being tak…
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CCaaS Consultant Cloudlinx Joins Edify Channel to Drive Future of Work Initiatives
CCaaS consultant Cloudlinx has joined the Edify channel program to bring its customers an AI-driven contact center solution with unified business comm…
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4 Fatal CX Measurement Mistakes Every Enterprise Should Avoid
Customer-centric organizations are on track to invest more than $10 billion this year to measure customer experience. So, why have 86% of companies fa…
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Sytel Enables Fully Functioning Contact Center for Teleworkers over the Weekend
Sytel transitioned a customer's contact center to the cloud starting Friday night and was able to have it up and running by the time business opened M…
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Thrio, TELUS Launch AI-Driven CC360 Customer Engagement Platform
Thrio and TELUS have introduced Cloud Contact 360, an AI-driven customer engagement solution to meet customers on their terms and deliver fast, effect…
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New Serenova Program Helps Call Centers Quickly Support Remote Agents
Serenova's new CxEngage Rapid Response program is designed to help contact centers quickly move to the cloud and support remote agents in response to …
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Contact Center Solution Provider 3CLogic Announces Series B
3CLogic announced a $9 Million Series B financing led by Capitan Investment Partners and True Blue Partners. 3Clogic will leverage the influx of funds…
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Coping with COVID-19 Call Volumes and Overwhelming Challenges
There is no letting up of the spread of COVID-19, as the global pandemic continues to move through the world's largest countries, including the U.S., …
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Above Average: The Art and Science of Contact Center Metrics
Earlier this month, Grand View Research released a major market analysis and report forecasting the global contact center software market will grow to…
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A Healthy Response to Global Coronavirus Pandemic Through Operational Excellence in the Contact Center
We asked Sean Erickson, Managing Director at Eventus, a contact center and CX advisory, technology, and managed solutions firm based in Denver, Colora…
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Shopping Cash-Back App Ibotta Chooses NICE for Workforce Management
Ibotta selected NICE Workforce Management and NICE Employee Engagement Manager in the cloud to offer flexibility and control to their part-time and re…
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NICE Announces [email protected] to Address COVID-19 Concerns, Accelerate Work-from-Home Transition
NICE launched [email protected] today, a limited time offer in direct response to COVID-19. The cloud native solution is aimed at supporting contact centers …
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Data Driven, Customer Defined: Data For The Sake of CX Improvement
The shift we are seeing in is to take this data and associate it with outcomes - measurable business outcomes - that transcend "cost savings." While t…
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Serenova, Lifesize Merge, More to Come?
CCaaS provider Serenova and video collaboration vendor Lifesize have merged, looking to buuild on the momentum in the UCaaS market.
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Using Workforce Management to Lower Call Center Attrition
The call center has a dubious distinction in the business world: it's least able to retain employees. In fact, according to a study by Talkdesk, inbou…
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Leveraging the Human Chat-Bot Dynamic in the Call Center
The idea of automating the contact center isn't a new one. It's been under discussion since the earliest days of automation technologies, starting wit…
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Why Call Recording Quality Monitoring is Essential for Your Call Center
Customer calls to cell-phone companies, banks, airlines, insurers or tech-support contact centers are mostly met with the automated declaration: "This…
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How Workforce Management Can Supplement Call Center Training
As the way people communicate with their product and service providers shifts, the way call centers need to communicate with customers needs to shift.…
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Study Identifies Media Influence on Negative Perceptions of Casual Employment
What is "casual employment"? We hear the term in the news a lot. In fact, it's a distinct employment classification under U.S. federal law and the law…
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Recipients of the 2020 CUSTOMER Products of the Year Award Announced
TMC announced the winners of the 2020 CUSTOMER Products of the Year Award, presented by CUSTOMER magazine.
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Why Unified Communications Needs to Include Contact Centers
Smart businesses are unifying their communications and contact center technologies to create more efficient operations and better customer experiences…
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InMoment Acquires MaritzCX to Create Future of Work and CX Powerhouse
InMoment has acquired MaritzCX to create a CX powerhouse. CMO Kristi Knight is excited about the opportunities the new company has.
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Contact Center AI Startup Cresta Launches with Workforce Management Solution
Cresta, an AI startup firm focusing on workforce management and productivity increases for contact center workers, has launched with a $21 million fun…
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NICE inContact CXone Recognized for Innovation
Innovation is the forefront of success across industries today. Businesses that innovate are winning the race. NICE inContact and its CXone offering, …
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Spok Boosts Clinical Workflows with New Name & Cloud Platform Upgrades
Spok, a healthcare communications provider based in Springfield, VA, is focused on improving care collaboration for clinical teams as they depend more…
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Hotels Tap Total Connect Now to Deliver Great Experiences and Improve Operational Efficiency
With more competition from challengers like Airbnb and VRBO, and rising expectations from consumers, especially Millennials who live digitally and con…
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Prepare for Oceans of Data and the New Wave of CX and Contact Center Intelligence
Every mega trend in the CX industry today generates data, whether it is personalization (delivering the preferred experience to every individual custo…
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Future of Work Speaker: The Problem with AI Assistants is They're Not Human Enough
Allison SMith talks AI and IVR and what's keeping the technology from massive uptake.
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ITEXPO Speaker Thrio: Customers Comparing CX Across Markets, Changing the Competitive Dynamic
Customers will be more likely to walk away from companies they do business with more quickly than in the past. My reasoning is consumers don't compare…
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Tips for Fostering an Inclusive, Engaging Call Center Culture
Call center agents must be engaged and motivated on the job to successfully engage customers. Call center managers can boost engagement by fostering a…
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Filling the Gaps in Customer Satisfaction Reality in the Contact Center
There's a huge disconnect in contact centers today. While most of them - better than 90 percent - claim that customer service quality is their number …
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Five Trends Shaping the Future of Customer Support
Few industries are evolving at a faster pace than customer service and support. With an influx of new technologies, contact centers have a wealth of d…
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ORGANO Gets Customer Experiences in Shape with Talkdesk
In regard to delivering quality customer care, nothing is more important than consistent quality and always-on communications. When ORGANO - a growing…
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Aculab Helps IPI Reduce Call Center Identity Verification Time from 38 to 5 Seconds
IPI has partnered with Aculab to deliver an enhanced and more secure customer experience through a voice identity and verification system.
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NICE inContact, Zendesk Pair CCaaS & CRM
NICE inContact and Zendesk announced a partnership that pairs the Zendesk customer service and engagement suite with the NICE inContact CXone to expan…
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Superior Customer Service Needs to Be the Norm, Not the Exception
A viral holiday anecdote about excellent customer service at a Chick-fil-A drive-thru should serve as the gold standard for customer engagement, parti…
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Amazon Experienced Some Uncharacteristic Chaos This Holiday Season
While most of us expect Amazon to run like a well-oiled machine during the holiday season - at least from a customer's perspective - even the most org…
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US Real Estate Franchise Moves Contact Center to Cloud with Five9
One US real estate franchise is ensuring it's prepared for the future and making the move to the cloud with Five9. The company announced it was chosen…
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Workforce Management Software Eliminates the Need for Erlang-C
If you manage a call center and you're of a certain age, chances are that you know how to calculate the Erlang-C formula, a mathematical calculation t…
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