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Will You Add? - Call Centers - Are They Really Efficient?
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How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand ho
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Now, in its most simplistic form, this would seem terrific. Imagine your washing machine breaks down, you call a number, without knowing it you are transferred to a call center. The person takes down your information and hopefully everything is OK. Next call please!
Let's take a step back. Most major companies use call centers now. I understand they are cost-effective and the shareholders of that company like it because the "efficiency" is up simply because company phone lines are not clogged up with customer service issues.
Call centers by the way can handle as many differing company issues as their system will allow. So, you may be phoning with a question about your hypothetical washing machine part, your next door neighbour needs a part for his vacuum cleaner and your relative has a question about a computer problem. Chances are the same call center are dealing with the three different calls. Just different staff.
How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand how
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Let's take a step back. Most major companies use call centers now. I understand they are cost-effective and the shareholders of that company like it because the "efficiency" is up simply because company phone lines are not clogged up with customer service issues.
Call centers by the way can handle as many differing company issues as their system will allow. So, you may be phoning with a question about your hypothetical washing machine part, your next door neighbour needs a part for his vacuum cleaner and your relative has a question about a computer problem. Chances are the same call center are dealing with the three different calls. Just different staff.
How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand ho
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Call centers by the way can handle as many differing company issues as their system will allow. So, you may be phoning with a question about your hypothetical washing machine part, your next door neighbour needs a part for his vacuum cleaner and your relative has a question about a computer problem. Chances are the same call center are dealing with the three different calls. Just different staff.
How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand ho
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How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand ho
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How about the impersonal dealings. That, of course is very true. You are just talking to a voice. He/she doesn't really understand how upset you are (that's if you have a complaint). They simply want to process the query as quickly as possible and move on to the next one. Now, this is where things start getting a bit tricky. A fair proportion of call centers now operate on the sub continent of India. You don't need to be an economist to understand the reason why. Very nice folk the Indians. However, I challenge anyone to tell me that if you are talking to an Indian person and you are from another predominantly English-speaking nation, that you don't have problems with the Indian accent.
Now this is no "fault" of the operator. Naturally, they are trying to give us the best service possible and no doubt they do. But first up, how can the service be completely efficient if you have to keep asking the operator to repeat themselves so you can get an understanding of what they are saying.
This is not a gripe about Indian folk in call centers. I merely point out the fact that call centers are set up purportedly to increase efficiency and save money
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