Tracking attendance is a vital part of call center management. Having an adequate number of agents present for every shift is crucial to your call center’s success. And it’s the only way to ensure you meet service-level goals. That’s why call center businesses need an effective way to track attendance. In this article, we’ll explain what an attendance tracker is and why call centers need it.
That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best 25 communication tools for you and your team, so you can always stay in touch with each other and with your customers. These tools will help you handle team communication, manage your projects, and even automate customer communication. By the end of the article, you’ll know exactly which tools you should be using. Let’s get started.
Have you ever had a sinking feeling that you don’t really deserve your achievements? Have you worried that your success has just been down to luck? That you shouldn’t really be in your position, and that one day your colleagues will discover that you’re an imposter? Whether we know it or not, many of us have experienced imposter syndrome at some point during our career.
Social distancing measures taken by responsible employers have greatly increased the number of employees working remotely. Even in the midst of this crisis, some companies and their employees can enjoy the objective benefits of not having to waste time and money on long commutes. At the same time, plenty of businesses really didn't have the structure in place to support a vast, full-time work-at-home workforce with the security or business processes they needed.
At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. If you’ve been using Zulip, love the product and its innovative threading model, and want to help share it with the world, please consider supporting us.
To offer superior support, customer service teams need their systems, tools, processes—and most of all—people to work in harmony. But in lieu of personalized service, self-service support is your stand-in, and it needs to be just as good as your agents. This harmonious approach is important because 69 percent of customers want to resolve as many issues as possible on their own using self customer service options, according to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report.
You could say that Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and founder of the venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, knows a thing or two about building startups. When we sat down with Ohanian for our CX Academy Live event, he shared his experience as an entrepreneur and the many lessons learned along the way—from his days responding to customer feedback emails at Reddit to his current role at Seven Seven Six helping the next generation of startups push forward.
The goal of this four-part series is to help you learn how to write your own Mattermost plugins for the first time. To kick things off, this article teaches you how to set up your developer environment. My test computer is a five-year-old laptop with an Intel i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. You need at least 30GB of hard disk for this project. Of course, you’ll also need an internet connection. We start with a freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04. You don’t need to install the desktop environment.
Today, most businesses run the tried and tested standard workweek of 9 am to 5 pm, scheduled five days a week. And this usually results in a 40-hour workweek. But over the years, many alternative work schedules have evolved to replace the traditional 8-hour workday. One such popular alternative workweek schedule is the 9/80 work schedule. In this article, we’ll discuss what a 9/80 work schedule is and how it works.
