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2. Rogers Communications - Call Centres and Satellite Offices 1 Rogers uses all Canadian based call centres for their Rogers, Fido and Cityfone brand names, and some offshore call centres for the Chatr division. The Canadian centres are operated by the Rogers Shared Operations (RSO) division at various satellite locations. These locations not only serve as call centres, but may also serve as satellite management offices away from the head office in downtown Toronto. Listed below are the location of their offices: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

3. Call centre 1 In addition to a Call Centre, collective handling of Letter (message)|letter, fax, live support software, and e-mail at one location is known as a 'Contact Centre'. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

4. Call centre 1 A Call Centre is operated through an extensive open workspace for Customer representative|Call Centre agents, with work stations that include a computer for each agent, a telephone set/Headphones|headset connected to a telecom switch, and one or more supervisor stations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

5. Call centre - Technology 1 Call Centre technology is subject to improvements and innovations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

6. Call centre - Technology 1 Historically, Call Centres have been built on Private branch exchange|PBX equipment that is owned and hosted by the Call Centre operator. The PBX might provide functions such as Automatic Call Distribution, Interactive Voice Response, and skills-based routing. The Call Centre operator would be responsible for the maintenance of the equipment and necessary software upgrades as released by the vendor. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

7. Call centre - Technology 1 'Virtual Call Centre Technology' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

8. Call centre - Technology 1 The vendor's telephony equipment then connects the calls to the Call Centre operator's agents. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

9. Call centre - Technology 1 'Cloud Computing for Call Centres' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

10. Call centre - Technology 1 Cloud computing for Call Centres extends cloud computing to Software as a service, or hosted, on-demand Call Centres by providing application programming interfaces (APIs) on the Call Centre cloud computing platform that allow Call Centre functionality to be integrated with cloud-based Customer relationship management, such as Salesforce.com or Oracle CRM and leads management and other applications. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

11. Call centre - Technology 1 The APIs typically provide programmatic access to two key groups of features in the Call Centre platform: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

12. Call centre - Technology 1 Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) APIs provide developers with access to basic telephony controls and sophisticated call handling on the Call Centre platform from a separate application. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

13. Call centre - Technology 1 Configuration APIs provide programmatic control of administrative functions of the Call Centre platform which are typically accessed by a human administrator through a Graphical User Interface (GUI). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

14. Call centre - Dynamics 1 Call centre staff are often organised into a multi-tier support system for more efficient handling of calls https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

15. Call centre - Dynamics 1 Call centres have also been the subject of complaints by callers who find the staff often do not have enough skill or authority to resolve problems, while the staff sometimes appear apathetic https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

16. Call centre - Dynamics 1 Telephone calls are easily monitored, and the close monitoring of call centre staff is widespread. This has the benefit of helping the company to plan the workload and time of its employees. However it has also been argued that such close monitoring breaches the human right to privacy. Most call centres provide electronic reports that outline performance metrics, quarterly highlights and other information about the calls made and received. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

17. Call centre - Varieties 1 *Inbound Call Centre - Exclusively or predominantly handles inbound calls (calls initiated by the customer). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

18. Call centre - Varieties 1 *Outbound Call Centre - One in which Call Centre agents make outbound calls to customers or sales leads. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

19. Call centre - Varieties 1 *Blended Call Centre - Combining automatic call distribution for incoming calls with predictive dialling for outbound calls, it makes more efficient use of agent time as each type of agent (inbound or outbound) can handle the overflow of the other. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

20. Call centre - Varieties 1 *Telephone answering service - A more personalised version of the Call Centre, where agents get to know more about their customers and their callers; and therefore look after calls just as if based in their customers office. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

21. Call centre - Criticism and performance 1 Criticisms of call centres generally follow a number of common themes, from both callers and call centre staff. From callers, common criticisms include: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

22. Call centre - Criticism and performance 1 (2005) Manage Your Human Sigma, Harvard Business Review Call centres are beginning to address this by using Agent- assisted Automation to standardise the process all agents use https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

23. Call centre - Mathematical theory 1 Queueing theory is a branch of mathematics in which models of queueing systems have been developed. A call centre can be seen as a queuing network. The models can be applied to answer queueing questions for call centres. The most widespread queueing model used is the Erlang unit|Erlang C Formula. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

24. Call centre - Mathematical theory 1 Call centre operations have been supported by mathematical models beyond queueing, with operations research, which considers a wide range of Optimization (mathematics)|optimisation problems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

25. Call centre - Media portrayals 1 Indian call centres have been the focus of two documentary films, the 2005 film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and the 2006 film Bombay Calling. An Indian call centre is also the subject of the 2006 film Outsourced (film) and a key location in the 2008 film, Slumdog Millionaire. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

26. Call centres - Varieties 1 *Inbound call centre – Exclusively or predominantly handles inbound calls (calls initiated by the customer). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

27. Call centres - Varieties 1 *Outbound call centre – One in which call centre agents make outbound calls to customers or sales leads. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

28. Call centres - Varieties 1 *Blended call centre – Combining automatic call distribution for incoming calls with predictive dialling for outbound calls, it makes more efficient use of agent time as each type of agent (inbound or outbound) can handle the overflow of the other. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

29. Call centres - Varieties 1 *Telephone answering service – A more personalised version of the call centre, where agents get to know more about their customers and their callers; and therefore look after calls just as if based in their customers office. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

30. Call centres - Mathematical theory 1 (Erlang's C formula is such a result for an M/M/c queue and approximations exist for an M/G/k queue.) Statistical analysis of call centre data has suggested arrivals are governed by an inhomogeneous Poisson process and jobs have a log-normal distribution|log-normal service time distribution. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

31. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Call centres in India 1 The paper even sent a journalist to Bangalore, Luke McIlveen, and a photographer to verify this claim.[http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcript s/s1766278.htm Media Watch: Front Page — Bad Line For Bangalore] (16 October 2006) ANZ strongly denied the claim, stating that they do not employ overseas call centre staff in India.http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcript s/ep36anz2.pdf Subsequently, ANZ pulled all of its advertising from News Corp Australia|News Limited, including Foxtel and News websites https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

32. HSBC Malta - Malta Call Centre 1 In April 2006 HSBC announced that it would be opening a new call centre in Malta, with an investment of €7 million and the creation of 350 jobs. The centre will deal with calls from HSBC Bank (Europe)|HSBC Bank's customers in the United Kingdom, and operate as a branch of that company, under the oversight of HSBC Malta management [http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php ?id=222258]. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

33. List of Hollyoaks locations - Call centre 1 Later in 2009, all of the staff quit and the call centre was ultimately shut down. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

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