Tag: COVID-19
How to Apply Predictive Analytics to Post-COVID Recovery, Part 1
We are now into the final quarter of a year that will surely be remembered as one of the most chaotic in history. Many...
Customer Service Week 2020 Wrap-Up
We’re wrapping up Customer Service Week 2020 with themes, activities and comments from Fara Haron of Majorel, Mark Pereira of Briljent, and Centrical’s Gal...
More Customer Service Week 2020
In our second post on Customer Service Week 2020, Sitel Group’s Olivier Camino and Sweetwater’s Jeff Ostermann provide insights into their companies’ employee experience...
Customer Service Team Appreciation 2020
This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections. Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our October 2020 Issue
I love Customer Service Week. Our frontline staff represent our organizations and they make such a difference in our customer’s experience. Regardless of our...
Hiring Work-at-Home Agents After the Coronavirus Crisis: What’s Next
Chances are you have pivoted toward remote agents, and maybe not by choice: Most organizations were forced into work-from-home situations. You scrambled and had...
Roll with the Changes
In 1978, the band REO Speedwagon released its seventh studio album. Called You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish, it was...
Maintaining Customer Support in a Crisis
For contact center businesses, unexpected changes such as unplanned downtime, massive call volume increases, facility closures or other issues can wreak havoc on a...
Preventing Contact Center Agent Burnout
Employees everywhere are struggling with severe increases in stress and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Fear of being exposed to the virus...
Working From Home—A Growing Necessity
When you think of working from home, several benefits come to mind. The savings in both time and money to commute back and forth...
The Four Most Important Skills for Leading Hybrid Teams
The Covid-19 pandemic created significant shifts in how we work. As businesses scrambled to set up employees to work from home, there was little...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles, Part 3
In this final installment of our three-part series on COVID-19’s impact on contact centers, our panel discusses how the rapid move to adopt or...
Top 5 Posts in July
There has been quite a bit of activity on the Pipeline blog in July. Understandably, articles related to pandemic-related customer service issues continued to...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles, Part 2
Our three-part series on COVID-19’s impact on contact centers and the shift to more flexible human and automated models continues with a look at...
Healthcare Contact Centers: Readiness ROI and What’s Next
WFH… work from home. Everyone knows this acronym by now. Just about everywhere you look, people are “working from home.” Yet, this is not...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles in the Contact Center, Part 1
As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered...
Caring for Customers During a Pandemic
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been multilayered, creating widespread fear and stress over health and safety, income, finances, child care, elder care...
Why the Call Center Was Already Collapsing—Even Before COVID-19
COVID-19 has made the fundamental flaws in phone-based support impossible to ignore. Overwhelmed and under-equipped reps are struggling, anxious customers are stuck on hold...
Top 5 Posts in June
More contact center leaders have begun to turn their thoughts from crisis mode to planning for next steps. Operating during a pandemic has underscored...
After the Pandemic: How to Bring Back the Contact Center
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption across nearly every line of business, and contact centers are no exception. In times like these,...
