While call centres are increasingly realising that IT strategies are vital for business, call centre IT budgets are increasingly becoming divorced from the centres themselves. Around 64 per cent of ...

IP telephony, or voice over IP, is now commonplace in many large enterprises. So why has it not been successfully ported to an area where it can offer great benefit - the call centre? IP-based call ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Compass, which surveyed 50 offshore facilities for the ...

TOKYO, May 5 (Reuters) - Almost a month after Tokyo declared a state of emergency, dozens of call centre employees for telecom KDDI Corp still commute into their crowded office, where the fear of ...

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Call centres in Australia, like their counterparts around the world, have rightly earned a reputation as the new sweatshops of the electronic era. Low-paid employees answering telephone inquiries work ...

Sky has announced plans to shake up its call centres in a move which will see around 2,000 jobs put at risk of being lost. The media company, which is owned by US media giant Comcast, is looking to ...

Serco-run operation regularly fails because staff are not properly trained and pushed to meet call volume targets, a senior NDIA employee says ...