Home-based customer service solutions for Europe
SYKESHome Europe – where home-based agent solutions start
Work-at-home agent solutions for European customer service needs
Serving customers through home-based agents is not new and has become essential to many businesses faced with challenging business needs. Here, we explain the benefits and advantages of outsourcing customer service and technical support needs to an experienced work-at-home provider, skilled in the recruitment, training and deployment of home-based agents across Europe. SYKESHome brings many years of work-at-home programme management experience and the resources of a global leader in outsourced customer service solutions. Everything needed for success in deploying your virtual contact centre for Europe is here.
Core benefits
SYKESHome is a proven model for European customer service, bringing together talented employees, remote working expertise and technology designed for the virtual world.
Unlimited multilingual customer service
Well, virtually unlimited. Without the limitations imposed by travel-to-distance labour markets and building constraints.
Detailed talent mapping
For programmes needing fans, or experience, or qualifications, your needs can be fine-tuned to employ just the right people.
Complex support programmes
Where varied skills, training or certifications are needed, and across many countries, languages and lines of business, complexity is easily handled.
Seasonal and peak demand
Even the most extreme seasonal or intra-day or -week peaks are accommodated easily through the part-time and split-shift working preferred by home-based agents.
Best Practices
Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:
- Employ the right people – with the right attributes to succeed at home
- Have the right technology – so agent interaction and team support works
- Be engaging – remote working can be hard, so make it work for all
- Remain focused – remote working is different, so treat it differently
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Best Practices
Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:
- Employ the right people – with the right attributes to succeed at home
- Have the right technology – so agent interaction and team support works
- Be engaging – remote working can be hard, so make it work for all
- Remain focused – remote working is different, so treat it differently
Coverage
| Arabic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French |
German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese |
Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian |
Best Practices
Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:Success in work-at-home programmes requires the following:
- Employ the right people – with the right attributes to succeed at home
- Have the right technology – so agent interaction and team support works
- Be engaging – remote working can be hard, so make it work for all
- Remain focused – remote working is different, so treat it differently
Coverage
| Arabic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian |
Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian |
Resource library
Scroll through the solution brochures below or view our videos in the resource library.
SYKESHome Europe
SYKESHome is a home-based agent customer support solution that delivers a comprehensive suite of distributed workforce and outsource capabilities across Europe.
The future of outsourced customer service!
At SYKES, we believe that for many people working from home is the future. Delivering a highly flexible solution to many business needs, SYKESHome is outsourced customer support that makes it happen.
SYKES Case Study
The Benefits of Adding Business to an Outsourcer Agreement.
SYKES Case Study
Work-at-home is a quality solution to meet growing customer service needs.
SYKES Case Study
Delivering success through a work-at-home/in-centre hybrid model.
SYKES Case Study
Time-sensitive fulfilment programme for a global banking client.
How Work At Home has evolved from a continuity measure to the preferred CX model
For many businesses Work At Home (WAH) has long been seen as nothing more than a business continuity measure – a way to keep delivering in the event that the office or contact centre became temporarily unavailable. But, over the past 12 months, those perceptions have...
The changing perceptions of Work At Home
Prior to the events of 2020, many companies were intrigued by Work At Home (WAH) customer service. They recognised its existence, they were curious to know more, but they were ultimately reluctant to adopt it in their organisations. Then came lockdown, and companies...
Managing the customer journey from end to end!
When a customer gets in touch, it’s typically because something that they expected to happen, didn’t. For the business, the customer interaction provides an opportunity to put it right. However, at the end of the conversation, the customer may have another leg in...
Questions?
What are the advantages of a home-based customer service team?
SYKESHome teams are very agile, satisfying peak needs, of highly seasonal volumes with ease. Agents typically have fifteen years of work experience and college or university education. These are attributes that make a big difference to customer experience. Further information is available in our SYKESHome Europe infosheet or by contacting us.
How do you know agents are doing what they are supposed to?
OneTEAM is SYKESHome’s core technology platform. Developed internally, agents use this to raise their hand, ask questions, change status and many other things. From a management perspective, the platform tells managers whether their team members are in a call or chat and displays the key information necessary for effective management and reporting. More information is available by contacting us.
Is work-at-home secure for my company’s data and customers?
Security is a key consideration in any customer service programme. SYKESHome for Europe uses applicant profiling and checks, as well as multiple technology layers and behavioural analysis, to satisfy security requirements. Only SYKES-owned equipment is used, and no data is stored, downloaded or printed locally. For more information, please contact us.
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