Agent Retention Strategies: Beyond the Basics

Agent Retention Strategies: Beyond the Basics

Contact centers are the cornerstone of your company’s customer service experience. Yet, help desk, support staff, and contact center agent retention remains a serious and unresolved challenge for many organizations.  According to Gartner, high levels of disengagement lead to increased costs, as well as poor employee and customer outcomes. The research finds that disengaged representatives…

How Running a Marathon Will Inspire Your Contact Center Team

How Running a Marathon Will Inspire Your Contact Center Team

Global Running Day celebrates the history of running. It highlights the runners’ skills, challenges, and the passion of those who have chosen this discipline as a hobby or profession. On the occasion of this global celebration held in June, we bring together the stories of three running enthusiasts at Playvox who conquer marathons worldwide and…

Innovating Agent  Experience in the Modern Contact Center

Innovating Agent  Experience in the Modern Contact Center

Is your contact center a leader or follower when it comes to innovating agent experience? Think about the definition of innovation, then ask, “How does my contact center and leadership stack up?” Innovation is defined as “the process of bringing about new ideas, methods, products, services, or solutions that have a significant positive impact and…

Flexible Work Arrangements: The Future of Contact Centers

Flexible Work Arrangements: The Future of Contact Centers

The future of work is an important topic of discussion for business leaders. While we can’t know for sure what the future of work will look like, one thing seems certain—flexible work is a major component in achieving satisfaction among the modern workforce.  Since the COVID-19 pandemic, attitudes toward ongoing remote, hybrid, and flexible work…

Why Consumers Increasingly Demand Digital Customer Service

Why Consumers Increasingly Demand Digital Customer Service

In today’s digital age, the customer service landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by shifting customer preferences and expectations. More than ever, customers are turning to digital channels when interacting with businesses, prompting a fundamental change in how contact centers operate and engage with their audience. In this article, we explore the reasons behind the increasing…

Boosting Contact Center Efficiency Through Agent Empowerment

Boosting Contact Center Efficiency Through Agent Empowerment

In a Deloitte survey, contact center leaders named customer experience (CX) and cost control as the top strategic priorities. These two terms may seem incongruent – how can you deliver outstanding CX while controlling costs?  The answer lies in agent empowerment. By focusing on employee engagement and agent empowerment, you create contact center efficiencies and,…

The Real Cost of Employee Turnover in a Contact Center

The Real Cost of Employee Turnover in a Contact Center

The struggle is real:  Finding ways to boost agent engagement and retention with your most talented team members is crucial not only to the bottom line, but to delivering outstanding customer experience (CX).  As a contact center leader, it’s advantageous to understand the real cost of employee turnover, and, more importantly, make it a strategic…

Navigating the Future of Healthcare: The Tech-Powered Patient Journey

Navigating the Future of Healthcare: The Tech-Powered Patient Journey

In the smart city of the future, you can book medical appointments through your phone virtual assistant. You will have a series of monitoring tools at home, and technology will help predict any situation that requires urgent medical attention. With monitoring tools, you will keep track of the medication supply you need daily and receive…

Automated Quality Management: More Than Just Scoring

Automated Quality Management: More Than Just Scoring

AI has been quietly knocking on contact center doors for years. But in 2023, with the thunderous buzz around ChatGPT and generative AI, the call finally became impossible to ignore. Today, AI is solidly inside every top-performing contact center—everything from automated quality management to virtual agents. For customer experience (CX) leaders, the question is no…