With 145 million daily active users as of April 2021, Microsoft Teams has taken the world by storm. The Teams ecosystem delivers a reliable environment for productivity, collaboration, and communication in the digital workplace. It’s no wonder companies want to bring Teams into more of the business technology stack – including the contact center environment.
Around 97% of employees say they would recommend remote work, and 98% say they’d work remotely at least part-time for the rest of their careers.
Since the pandemic of 2020 pushed more companies to experiment with remote working strategies, many business leaders have agreed that the future of the office is hybrid. With a portion of employees working in the office, and a segment working outside, companies can achieve the best of both worlds.
The customer service trends of 2021 and beyond will leave no room for error.
For years, customer expectations have been evolving. Clients have demanded faster resolutions to their problems, better service on various channels, and more personalized experiences. When the pandemic pushed us into a more digital world in 2020, this demand for excellence increased. Since COVID-19, 59% of customers care even more about customer experience.
The popularity of self-service is growing.
Now that companies are more digitally empowered, with access to smartphones, intelligent assistants, and internet connections, they’re comfortable doing things independently. Indeed, many people became accustomed to this model during 2020, with the pandemic pushing people who hadn’t experimented with self-service options before to explore new models.
The pandemic disrupted the world in a way nobody could have imagined.
During 2020, stay-at-home directives pushed staff outside of the office while consumers remained indoors and ordered deliveries to avoid interaction. Companies had to adapt their go-to-market strategies, and global uncertainty drove a rapid increase in service calls.
The contact center has come a long way since those old days of cluttered rooms full of ringing phones. Today’s CCaaS environment is more than just a place where people manage calls. Contact centers are experience centers, built for delivering customer value and building brand reputation.
Projected to reach a value of about $72.3 billion by 2027, CCaaS is one of the hottest trends in communication right now. Otherwise known as “Contact Center as a Service”, the solution involves delivering contact center technology and capabilities to companies over the cloud “as a service.” This removes the need for companies to install their own premises-based technology.
The age of hybrid work has officially arrived.
The modern workforce is no longer office-centric. Today’s employees can stay productive wherever they are and achieve incredible business outcomes. However, if your teams are going to survive and thrive in the hybrid landscape, they need the right tools.
Your call center could be more productive, it just needs the right tools.
M247, a global provider of connectivity, cloud technology and unified communications solutions is excited to announce the launch of Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams. The solution is brought to the market in partnership with technology vendor and long-standing Microsoft Gold partner, Geomant.
The launch comes a year after the release of Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and is part of M247’s roadmap for delivering a complementary suite of voice services that are flexible, easy to consume and underpin customers’ digital ambitions.
