It goes without saying that sickness is a burden on any business. If for whatever reason your levels of absence due to sickness are high, you’re constantly under the cosh as a business, scratching around to find people to cover shifts and minimise overall …

Agent Experience
Flexible scheduling: A triple-win for businesses and their employees
Flexible working has become a fixture of the professional world. Flexible and short-term working arrangements have proven popular amongst staff in many industries, and shift scheduling has moved on from a ‘top down’ command-type arrangement into a two-way conversation between managers and employees.
The emerging generation …
Traditional comms channels: a last resort for consumers?
The humble telephone has been a fixture of the customer engagement experience for many decades. It’s still a hugely important piece of the puzzle, but the evolution in mindset of the younger generation means that it’s now becoming a last resort rather than a first …
Vom Anwender her denken: Rollenbasierte Benutzeroberflächen
Benutzerfreundlichkeit ist der Schlüssel für den produktiven Einsatz von Unternehmenssoftware. Je nachdem, wie intuitiv sich eine Software bedienen lässt, steigt die Akzeptanz und die Effizienz der Anwender. Außerdem sinkt der Aufwand für die Schulungen der Anwender.
Ein wichtiger Ansatzpunkt dabei ist es, die Benutzeroberfläche an dem …
Make Life Easier for Your Entire Workforce
Since the dawn of man, people have been engaged in a compelling quest to make life easier for themselves. We have instinctively sought ways to accomplish our daily tasks better and more efficiently than we did the day before. When hunting for deer, we discovered …
Digital disruption is changing our lives…and its impact on the contact centre is no different
The past few years have seen digital disruption move at an incredible pace, transforming almost every element of our lives; from our ease of access to services to how we purchase goods, and how we lead our everyday lives both at home and in the …
Millennials and the Work Ethic
Millennials were born between 1976 and 2001. They are very different from their doting baby boomer parents. Millennials are tech savvy, skilled at multitasking, great at working in teams, and eager to please. They are also accustomed to being pampered both at home and at …
WFM als Chance, auch die Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit zu verbessern
Mit der zunehmenden Verbreitung und stetigen Verbesserung von Self-Service Anwendungen lassen sich einfachere und wiederkehrende Aufgaben automatisiert erledigen. Das wiederum bedeutet, dass die Anfragen, mit denen Kunden sich an die menschlichen Mitarbeiter wenden, komplexer sind, so dass von den Mitarbeitern im Kundenservice insgesamt ein höheres …
Easing automation anxieties through up-skilling
Automation is a word on the lips of many a business professional these days. Inevitably it inspires hope for the future for many a decision-maker, but it’s also responsible for raising fears amongst workers that their jobs might be under threat. With OECD figures predicting …
Work from home programs are no longer a reward system
Over the past few months Aspect customers have been reaching out to discuss their plans to implement a work from home strategy for their engagement centers (contact centers), and it has inspired me to share more globally what we have seen in the industry, and …