Tag: work from home
Changes in Contact Center latitudes, Changes in AI Attitudes
In 1977, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet released his seventh studio album, entitled Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The album, which featured a song by...
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...
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 Covid-19 Crisis: Do We Put Our Energy into People, Process or Technology?
COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives in so many ways. As we all learn to navigate our way through this global crisis, there are increasing...
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...
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...
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...
Redefining the Work Experience
As companies realign their workforce during these disruptive times, work-from-home (WFH) is quickly redefining the concept of “business as usual.” Both companies and employees...
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...
COVID-19 and the Contact Center: Horror, Heartache, Humanity and Hope
Has anyone besides me noticed how many contact center industry work-from-home (WFH) experts there suddenly are? I thought there was only one, really. That...
Where Contact Centers Go from Here
Everyone is talking about the way we’re functioning now as our “new normal.” But is this current routine just a short-term patch while we...
On-Trend: At-home Agents
You know something is pretty important or interesting these days if it’s referred to as being on-trend, or trending. It’s not the same as...
Meet LogMeIn: Our May 2020 Sponsor Wall of Fame Honoree
Contact Center Pipeline's
SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name:
LogMeIn CEO:
William (Bill) Wagner, CEO Describe your company:
LogMeIn delivers industry-leading solutions designed to empower companies to deliver smarter,...
When Contact Changes: Five Tips for Transitioning to Remote Contact Centers
Now more than ever, businesses are trying to deliver consistency in a world that is changing every day. We at Cresta have been in...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our May 2020 Issue
"What a difference a month makes..." Well, that's what I thought I would be saying this month as we release the May issue. That's...
Top 5 Posts in April
With most of the United States now a month or longer under stay-at-home directives, readers continue to seek information on managing through the coronavirus...
