As consumers acclimate to chatbots as their own personal assistants at home, customer service agents have warmed to the idea of chatbots in the contact center. First, agents welcome customer support chatbots to assist with workforce tasks and communicating with management. In addition, agents see …
Agent Experience
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Agents in Your Contact Center?
There’s been a lot of discussion about artificial intelligence and its uses in customer service to facilitate faster, smarter customer engagements. Already, countless businesses are leveraging some form of AI to facilitate self-service using chatbots, speech recognition, and automation solutions. The question being asked, though, …
Infographic – Gig Economy and Customer Service Agents
This week we released part two of our Agent Experience Index survey covering the gig economy and how customer service agents feel about it. Currently, 16% of customer service agents are working in the “gig economy” and we expect that number to continue to rise. …
“It’s Complicated” (But Aspect has an answer to multichannel forecasting)
In 1917 Danish mathematician A.K. Erlang developed a model for predicting how many circuits the telephone company would needed to serve the city of Copenhagen. The model became known as Erlang C and eventually became the mathematical foundation for both automated and manual forecasting models …
Infographic: Inside the Hearts and Heads of Customer Service Agents
Today we officially launched part one of our 2018 Agent Experience Index. The Agent Experience Index looks at customer service agents across all demographics and examines their job satisfaction, engagement, ability to provide great customer experiences, and more. A summary of the data can be …
Contact Center Leaders: If You’re Not Early You’re Late
It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a job interview, a team meeting or your annual physical. The saying holds true no matter what the occasion: if you’re not early you’re late. In order to prepare for all the obstacles that life is certain to …
Aspect and Intuit: Helping You Survive Tax Season
April 15 is a date that strikes fear into the hearts of many Americans as they scramble to explain to the IRS how much federal income tax they should be paying. It’s not surprising that so many American are nervous: The US tax code is …
Drum Roll Please….Our Second GEM Award Winner
Last Friday we introduced the GEM Awards as well as our very first winner. And today, we want to introduce our second winner!
Our next winner comes from an airline that has continuously been rated the best for customer experience, something our winner (and all employees) …
Introducing the GEM Awards and Our First Winner!
Yesterday, we officially introduced the Aspect GEM (Going the Extra Mile) Awards and we are so excited to say that we have our first two winners! To give you some background on the GEM program we created, in partnership with the Aspect Software User Group …
The Importance of Collaboration
When asked what their biggest challenges were today, 18.4% of contact center leaders polled by Strategic Contact cited poor cross-departmental collaboration. This was second only to attrition. Contact center employees sometimes find themselves blindsided by decisions made elsewhere in the organization regarding products, promotions, pricing, …