The technology sector is incredibly dynamic and the demand for IT professionals is at an all-time high. Businesses of all different sizes are seeking skilled IT workers to help them grow and expand, yet over 70% of tech firms are facing skills shortages. In our guide, we’ve outlined some of the issues skills gaps can cause and how businesses can cope accordingly through targeted recruitment, contractors, training and improving their hiring processes. What is the state of the skills shortage?

The annual ICMI Contact Center Expo, which took place virtually last month, featured an agenda of enlightening presentations on the state of the call center industry. While nearly every presentation over the two-day event mentioned the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the industry, one presentation in particular took a deep dive into what has changed since the pandemic and what it means for the future.

Time Doctor’s overview dashboards provide real-time data to managers and teams at their fingertips. Our dashboards create maximum visibility into the most important insights and summaries for managers and users at the daily, weekly, or monthly levels. We have two different dashboards: the Team Dashboard mostly used by managers and those who are delegated as admins in Time Doctor, and the User Dashboard that employees can use to monitor their own work autonomously.

In today’s business environment, consumers and organizations have a different relationship altogether. Modern consumers have become more informed, and are not driven merely by quality or low prices. Gone are the days of product-oriented advertisements that focused just on the tangible benefits of a product or where premium quality was associated with better brands.

Gone are the days of companies developing their own in-house tools to manage projects, time, sales funnels, and internal teams. Firms now benefit from hundreds of readily available online or on-premise applications that manage critical business functions and allocate resources at the click of a button. SaaS (Software as a Service) tools have become the bedrock of the modern workplace.

Customer support is demanding work: You’re on the front line handling queries, issues, and complaints all day. To motivate and retain support agents, companies need to acknowledge their work. Customer service recognition is when the customer service team’s hard work is seen, understood, and valued by the whole organization.

OneDesk makes optimizing your project schedule easy with ‘smart rescheduling’. In only a few clicks, this powerful tool can optimize the work schedule of your projects, allowing you to save time and reduce the overall duration of your projects. Smart rescheduling will take into account the project’s start date, any finish-to-start links between tasks, and any date constraints you have set, unless you specify otherwise.

It’s just a regular Tuesday morning, your customers are their usual selves and your helpdesk agents are going about their normal day. The sun is shining bright and the birds are chirping happily. Just as you were sipping your coffee, you thought that your day was going to be like any normal one. Fast forward five minutes: everything changed, and somehow it was not all that cheerful anymore. The phone lines are choking up, your Twitter is buzzing, and the birds’ chirps are drifting away.