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10 Must-Read Books About Employee Management: Insights from the Pros

If you’re looking for insights about employee management, you’ll want to read the 10 books on this list. Written by some of the top professionals in the field, these books will teach you everything from hiring the best employees to dealing with difficult ones. So if you’re ready to take your employee management skills up a notch, then be sure to check out these 10 must-read books!

About Using Custom Fields

One of the great aspects of OneDesk is the level of customization it supports. With OneDesk, you can configure unique statuses, forms, workflows, and much more. Regardless of what industry you work in, OneDesk can be configured in a variety of ways to fit your needs. In today’s blog I’m going to talk about one useful feature you can use to configure your account.

Why BPOs should worry less about time-wasting and invest more in monitoring

Time-wasting is a common phenomenon that almost every company has to face in some form or another. For BPOs, low productivity and motivation levels are common, and many senior figures are still focusing on cracking down on time-wasting. This is particularly so in companies that have migrated to remote working and hybrid working models, where supervisors and managers cannot easily see what workers are doing from one moment to the next.

How do work models influence resilience in BPOs?

It’s a tough old world out there, especially at the moment. The last few years have seen a global health and economic crisis, and we’re far from out of the woods. All organizations need to be more headstrong than ever to deal with the consequences. This extends to BPOs, too, who need to ensure their businesses are resilient. As BPOs transition to remote work, questions are being raised about how this affects productivity, engagement, and resilience.

Why Your Agency Needs To Stop Over-Servicing Now, and How To Do It | Scoro

Over-servicing, where agencies spend more hours on a client’s project than quoted or billed for, is one of the oldest and most challenging issues in the professional services business. It bites into profits, lowers agency margins, and is generally seen as a self-destructive business practice. But, as our recent survey of over 100 professional service agencies revealed, it is a far more complex issue than can be ascribed to only bad planning or inefficient resource utilization.

Pay-per-click best practices: Planning, building, bidding, and beyond

Managing multiple pay-per-click (PPC) ad campaigns is tough. How tough? Well, according to PPCsurvey’s The State of PPC Global Report 2022, agencies face several major challenges: While we may not be able to soothe your clients' ruffled feathers for you, or make updates to buggy ad platforms, we can help you make your PPC campaigns run smoothly and perform better. How?

Balancing Flexibility and Efficiency in the Evolving Workplace

The modern workplace is constantly evolving, and with this evolution, comes new challenges for employers and employees alike. One of the biggest challenges is finding the right balance between flexibility and efficiency in the workplace. Flexibility and efficiency are both important factors to consider when creating a successful and productive work environment, but they can often conflict with one another.

Is 4-Day Work Week an Antidote to Burnout?

In this video, we'll dive into how reducing employee burnout can be achieved through a focus on work-life balance, including the implementation of a 4-day work week. Having more time to recharge is one of the critical aspects when it comes to avoiding burnout. Learn how this shorter work week can actually lead to increased productivity and happier, healthier employees. Tune in to learn how we keep our employees happy, rested and productive at Scoro!

Survey: What Are Professional Service Agencies Keen to Improve in 2023? | Scoro

To keep our finger on the pulse of what makes the professional services industry tick, we recently interviewed over 100 agencies for our 2023 Clockwork report – The Agency Operations Survey. The survey, which was conducted in partnership with Agency Hackers, aims to collect detailed insights into the processes that drive agencies, their best practices, and how they run their operations. We asked questions on agency structure, client management, and internal processes.