When companies began adopting home based models, the goal was to reduce costs within the company by encouraging flexible work sites and times, while reducing overhead costs. A goal much attuned to the ...

Office Depot is in the process of shutting down nearly all its internally operated call centers and shifting the load to outsourcers – in particular, outsourcers who use home-based agents. The office ...

The shift from traditional, on-premise phone-system call centers to cloud-based call centers provides greater flexibility, scalability and cost efficiency. Coud-based call center solutions are quickly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. Working in a call center is no walk in the park. Agents deal with a constant influx of calls, ...

Will AI make call center jobs obsolete? The question has sparked a strong debate amongst industry leaders. One of the foremost predictions is that AI will soon eliminate the need for incoming customer ...