Key priorities Joe Biden Create a public option health care plan that expands off the Affordable Care Act. Decrease the price of prescription drugs. Protect abortion access. Invest $775 billion in child and elder care. Read details of Biden’s plans...

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7)– Almost a month ago, Bedford County created a hotline for COVID-19 calls. They say they’ve seen plenty of usage out of it since then. WDBJ7 photo So far, the call center has received about 250 phone...

  “The governor has declared delivered foods or curbside pickup essential businesses,” said Mike LaRosa, CEO of the family-owned company with 65 restaurants. “The operation of this call center is essential to processing orders at LaRosa’s.” But that doesn’t mean...

KEY POINTS Companies are enabling remote work to keep business running while helping employees follow social distancing guidelines. A typical company saves about $11,000 per half-time telecommuter per year, according to Global Workplace Analytics. As companies adapt to their remote...

The coordinator of the coronavirus response emphasized that social distancing, not masks, was still the most important step people could take. Critical medicines are running low, and nearly 10 million Americans have lost their jobs. RIGHT NOWThere are now more...

Leading CCaaS and CRM providers join forces to power faster and more personalized customer experiences NICE inContact (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced a joint partner agreement with Zendesk, a leading provider of customer service software. These two market leaders are joining...

Significant Changes to Call Centers Activity Law 52 of October 17, 2018, which regulates call centers activities for commercial use amends the tax incentives received by these companies. The legislation provides that in order to make use of the tax...

Call Centers in the Philippines Call centers in the Philippines have taken over the world. Outsourcing, in general, has grown in popularity for company and consumer alike. It has made companies more productive by taking over some of the tasks...

Greater telephone wait times, but not abandonment rates, were associated with lower patient perceptions of their ability to obtain urgent care in a timely manner. ABSTRACT Objectives: There is little research on the relationship between call center performance and patient-centered...

A Tucson call center is laying off 785 employees here, with Concentrix Corp. poised to shutter the West Side facility formerly owned by Convergys. The California-based company, which took over the Tucson center in October with a purchase of Convergys,...