Globally, the cost of living is skyrocketing – in the US, inflation hovers near a 40-year high, topping Americans’ concerns for the country, while Canada’s official inflation rate rose at a 6.8% annual pace this past April, a new 31-year high. Prices for everyday necessities – food, shelter and gas – are on the rise, as the COVID-19 pandemic is driving up the costs of raw materials and impacting global supply chains.
Retail, at its core, is all about connections between brands and their customers. Increasingly, AI is becoming the interface for these brand connections, and is also a necessary relationship facilitator as customer expectations evolve. Prioritizing the customer experience is now essential to driving loyalty and growing revenue, as retailers today compete on customer experience just as much as price.
Have you been wondering “how do I calculate my salary per hour?” You know how much you make each year, but do you know how much you make each hour? There are two types of employees — hourly employees and salaried employees (who sometimes have PTO), and only one of them knows how much their employers are paying for them each hour of their time. But salaried employees can also have this information just by doing some simple calculations.
Customer support tickets come in various shapes and forms, and from multiple channels – webforms, email, messaging and live chat. When a ticket enters a support team’s inbox, many companies triage it, tagging it based on the topic or urgency, and route it to the appropriate agent or team. This process helps streamline workflows, ensuring the right eyes are on the right ticket, and issues are resolved as quickly and accurately as possible.
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of customer service. This is because 73% of companies now report a direct link between customer service and business performance, according to our 2022 Customer Experience (CX) Trends Report, and 60% of customers will now walk away after just one bad experience – a 22% jump from the previous year.
Over the last decade, virtually all industries have been altered and improved by the growth of artificial intelligence. However, one area that has changed radically, but many might not think of, has been the document management ecosystem. Information-rich tasks have benefited from AI enormously, particularly in terms of knowledge management, business process management, security, and compliance.
Today, many companies worldwide are doubling down 1 on their reskilling and upskilling efforts, and equipping employees with the crucial skills that they need to thrive in the world of work today. Here, we review the key skills that customer service agents need to hone, in today’s ever-evolving landscape of work.
