April 2009 Survey Results
What’s Happening at Home
At Home Agent Use Not considering 6% Tested and not in use 1% Considering 35% Proven and in use 30%
Piloting 15%
Developing a pilot program 13%
Biggest Driver
Other (please specify)
Environmental initiatives
Developing pilot
26%
3%
Employee satisfaction
Better service
Cost savings
Other – largely flexibility
14%
12%
Considering, piloting, in use
46%
Please rank the following challenges to the at-home agent model.
General Managing remote agents
1 Considering, Developing
Managing remote agents
1
Selecting right people
Coaching agents virtually
New hire training
Fostering collaboration
2
3
4
5
Selecting right people
Coaching agents virtually
New hire training
3
4
5
Coaching agents virtually
Fostering collaboration
New hire training
3
4
5
2
Ongoing training
Ongoing Providing timely training communications
6
7
Fostering Providing timely collaboration communications
6
7
Piloting, In Use Managing remote agents
1
Selecting right people
2
Ongoing training
6
Providing timely communications
7
In a fully implemented program, where are agents located?
No location limitations 45%
Within a certain radius of a physical center 55%
If you currently have outsourced agents, considering moving headcount from there to at-home?
No outsourced agents
55%
Don't know
19%
No
13%
Yes
13%
What agents would you select for a pilot of an at-home program?
Use some mix of brand new and existing agents
Hire from the outside
A mix of existing high, medium and low performers
Existing high performers
24%
8%
21%
47%
Which processes are/will be different with at-home agents?
None of the above
16%
74%
Coaching
Communications
65%
Ongoing training
61%
New hire training
55%
Hiring
54%
How would you support separate processes? 34% - Hoping to learn, TBD, don’t know, etc.
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