February 9, 2012

How to Ensure Your Remote Employees Work Effectively

How to Ensure Your Remote Employees Work Effectively

By Mark P Palmer
In today’s business world it has become increasingly common for employees to work from home. [Read more...]

Effective Online Meetings: 3 Steps to Ensure Productive Meetings

Effective Online Meetings: 3 Steps to Ensure Productive Meetings

By James Hamby
Online meetings are a staple in today’s high tech business world. However, that doesn’t mean that you don’t need to take steps to ensure the efficacy and productivity of your meetings. [Read more...]

Lone Workers

Lone Workers

By David Lynes
As the way we work, where we work and how we work is forever changing, we are seeing a certain swing away from office based jobs and into people working alone, either by working from home or as part of a company that employs workers to go out and work remotely.
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Issues Related With Managing Virtual Employees

Issues Related With Managing Virtual Employees

By Bill Walsh
In the Internet era, one remarkable development in personnel acquisition is saving office spaces by outsourcing work. The shift now goes toward hiring off-site employees with good skills set and keeping in-house population to a minimum. [Read more...]

The Real Challenges of Remote Leadership

The Real Challenges of Remote Leadership

By Duncan Brodie
Whether local, national or even international, leaders are finding more and more that they are having to lead teams of people who are remotely based from them.

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New Rules for Virtual Management?

New Rules for Virtual Management?
By Nancy J. Williams
"In the next three years, public and private sector IT decision makers expect telework to increase by sixty five percent and thirty three percent respectively."1 According to the Office of Personnel Management, in 2009 they reported that approximately 102,000 Federal employee's telework.
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Top Seven Benefits of Implementing Telecommuting Policy

Top Seven Benefits of Implementing Telecommuting Policy

By Larence Cok
Gone are the days when people have to buy new professional outfits to attend a meeting or to finalize an important business deal over lunch meetings. The advancement in technology has helped in improving connectivity by reducing the distances to a great level.

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VoIP Contact Center: Why Shrinkage is Your Worst Nightmare

VoIP Contact Center: Why Shrinkage is Your Worst Nightmare

By Business Software

Whether you run an on-premise or virtual contact center, you know that shrinkage is your worst nightmare. This time that your agents spend doing anything other than interacting with customers is a drain on your overall budget. The biggest challenge for you is that some of the activities they are completing are necessary to the overall job.
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Know Something About Virtual Call Centers and Contact Center Solutions

Know Something About Virtual Call Centers and Contact Center Solutions
By Walt R Robertson

To set up a virtual call center we need a contact center solution. A contact center solution comes in varied size depending on the size and the type of the business you are trying to set up. Virtual call centers are well equipped call centers to provide the quality service to their customer, for that they need the help of contact center solution.
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Work at Home Agents – Distribute Your Contact Center and Tap Into This Unique Pool of Resources

Work at Home Agents – Distribute Your Contact Center and Tap Into This Unique Pool of Resources
By Nuno Periquito

The last couple of years have seen an increase in the number of Home Based Virtual Contact Centers leveraged by the huge traction that the Work at Home agent's business model is receiving from the industry. Work at Home agents is not a new idea, in fact; companies have tried to implement this model for several years. What is changing? What are the drivers pushing this business model?
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Teamwork-for-Telecommuters

Teamwork-for-Telecommuters
By Bart Icles

Telecommuting is no longer something unusual or groundbreaking. More and more companies are recognizing that it is actually not a bad thing to practice.

There are instances wherein employees find that they are more productive when working remotely and on their own, and telecommuting also becomes a very good option if an employee is just unable to come in to the office.

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New Wave Technology CRM and Telecoms All-In-One

New Wave Technology CRM and Telecoms All-In-One
By Claire Hibbert
When it comes to running a business it is important to have a good telecoms and IT set up from the off-set, systems which will move forward with you as your needs change and your team grows.

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