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Is Your Remote Contact Center Properly Staffed? Learn What Metrics Can Help You Understand Peak Volume
To ensure your remote contact center is able to handle peak volume times, you need to always have the right number of agents ready to answer calls. Adequate staffing is essential for providing callers the best possible customer experience. You also don’t want to make the mistake of overscheduling and wasting resources. So, what metrics should you look at to understand peak call volume?
May 19, 2020
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Preparing for the New Normal in Business
Drastically increased remote working and the need to ensure flexible and adaptive communications isn’t a temporary COVID-19 problem. It’s the new normal in business. How your organization responds to this new way of collaborating and communicating will determine its future level of success, both directly after the coronavirus and in the long term.
May 15, 2020
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Contact Center Unified Communications
Types of Business Communication Needed
For many companies, in as little a few days, business models shifted from tried and true operations to everything happening over the phone. We are all in uncharted ground, where distancing has become the prime directive and in-person interactions are by necessity curtailed. Phone call volume has soared to unprecedented levels, resulting in widespread busy signals, and the demand seems unlikely to abate any time soon.
May 13, 2020
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Scaling Healthcare Patient Communications
Many healthcare institutions are faced with a sudden and dramatic increase in patients without the help of additional resources. They have the same number of doctors and nurses on staff but are now dealing with hundreds of thousands of inquiries due to the pandemic. So how do you streamline your operations to handle this increase, all while enabling remote care teams to provide telehealth services? L.A. County Department of Health Services faced this very scenario and knew they had to scale their contact center fast in order to meet demand.
April 2, 2020
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Effective Communication in Healthcare
The new paradigm isn’t coming – it’s already here. Across North America, caller volume to hospitals, clinics, and health services lines is spiking to record highs. The influx exceeds most estimates, often overwhelming available resources and causing long wait times, unanswered calls, and frustrated patients.
March 30, 2020
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Virtual Meeting Best Practices for Teams
If you want to keep your conference call from being the epitome of a meme, then you need to reinvent the way you think about virtual meetings. Online meetings can be interactive and effective with the right technology and strategy. If you want to keep remote meetings engaging and on track, then use these 10 valuable tips.
March 26, 2020
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Top 10 Tips for Working at Home Effectively
With recent events, a lot of people are working from home for the very first time. Workers who shift from an office environment to a home set-up quickly realize that the two are not the same and that a few changes are needed to achieve the same level of success had at the office.
March 19, 2020
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The 9 Must-Have Tools for Remote Working
Are you empower with the right toolkit to work from home? We cover the essential remote work tools as well as some tools you might not have considered yet.
March 16, 2020
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Should You Remote-Enable Your Contact Center?
Contact centers that embrace the “remote-enable” paradigm aren’t bound by geographic restrictions. Cloud contact centers can have agents not only in different rooms – but in separate buildings, cities, states, or even different countries.
March 13, 2020
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The Impactful Benefits of Unified Communications
Providing the right technology and tools to your employees is critical, especially regarding communications. Your team needs flexibility in the way that they exchange ideas and collaborate, and you can find this with unified communications. The benefits of unified communications can positively impact how your staff works. Making the switch to a unified communications platform is a smart investment. Find out why.
February 26, 2020
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Benefits of a Modern Cloud Phone System
As your small business changes and grows, the ability to scale becomes a top priority. As you expand and add more employees, you’ll need a new approach to communications. If you are still using legacy on-premise telephony systems, upgrading and scaling are harder to accomplish, requiring a larger investment in money and time.
February 19, 2020
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How to Choose a Unified Communications Platform
As more businesses adopt the cloud, business leaders will continue to look for solutions that can bring everything together.
January 15, 2020
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