Category: Employee Experience

Free Webinar: Building Trust and Permission with Remote Teams

An upcoming webinar will discuss the importance of trust in organisations and different ways of adapting to the current climate with reinvented leadership styles. Hosted by Awards International in partnership with BlueSky and Capita, the free webinar will take place on...

Half of employees feel neglected by bosses, new research shows

The findings of research done by MHR reveal that 53 percent of all employees believe their employer is not showing concern about their mental health well-being during the current lockdown. The research involved 5,000 UK employees, two-thirds of which (66 percent)...

Streamline your digital workspace to curb tech fatigue

We believed that digital technology would bring seamless collaboration and boost the productivity in our digital workspace. The reality turned out differently.  Over 80% of companies believe that they still need to improve their collaborative working methods to hit their productivity...

Easy as ABC: Employee Recognition and How To Do It Right

Employee recognition is key to the success of any organisation, but whilst this fact has been well established, it seems there is still a lot of room for interpretation. For example, a statistic published by World at work states that the...

Can We Really Be Productive In the Comfort of our Own Home?

All it takes is one major event or natural disaster to disrupt the way businesses operate, which can ultimately negatively impact productivity and the bottom line. These events can often prevent us from working in our corporate offices, conducting business...

Easing the Contact Centre Compliance Burden

Cyber fraud has seen a 55 percent year-on-year increase in the UK in recent years with criminals successfully stealing £1.2 billion through fraud and scams in 2018. The world of telecommunications is far from immune, with 170m fraudulent calls blocked...

Ask the Mountains: Improving Your CX with These Unexpected Hiking Tips

I love the mountains. I love the feeling of freedom and to be on top of the world. The way you connect with nature, friends, family and yourself is unique. Interestingly enough, as a CX champion, I feel in a similar...

The Future of IVRs is No IVR At All

IVRs were invented in the 1960s as a way for businesses to automate the previously manual process of routing calls to the relevant departments. With the introduction of touch-tone dialling, the integration of IVRs into businesses ramped up in the...

Frontline Anxiety: Why Helping your Customer-Facing Employees During Covid-19 is Vital

Helping staff manage their fear and anxiety will be essential as we move through the Covid-19 pandemic and for those employees in vital customer facing or frontline roles this is going to be especially important. Most organisations have recognised their legal...

Virgin Mobile UAE Customer Care Team is Going Remote

Virgin Mobile UAE, the double gold winner at the 2019 Gulf Customer Experience Awards, announces a work-from-home scheme for its entire customer care staff. The company now makes it possible for their customer staff to offer 24/7 support from their...