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O2 Confirm Transfer of Up To 3,700 Contact Centre Jobs to Capita

O2 is to transfer 3,700 jobs to Capita from their contact centres in Bury, Glasgow, Leeds and Warrington effective 1st July 2013.

21st  May 2013


RAC goes live with SSP Select Contact Centre

The RAC have successfully deployed SSP Select Contact Centre, SSP’s specialist high-volume personal lines contact centre broking solution.

21st  May 2013


Sabio Inks Managed Service Deal With Yorkshire Building Society

Contact centre managed service provider Sabio has won a contract with Yorkshire Building Society to run its core telecoms customer service platform.

21st  May 2013


NS&I Awards Outsource Contract to ATOS

NS&I have announced that Atos has been awarded an outsourcing contract to deliver customer-facing and back office services to NS&I’s 25 million customers.

21st  May 2013


Genesys Launches New Proactive Engagement Solution for E-commerce and Web Customer Service

Genesys have announced the launch of Proactive Engagement, a powerful new offering that increases web sales and first contact resolution for customer service.

21st  May 2013


Experian drive business change & retention with Speech Analytics

The Nottingham based contact centre deals with customer enquiries handling around 200,000 calls per month across 270 agents.

20th May 2013


Sinclair Voicenet Expands Operations With New Offices

Sinclair Voicenet has opened a new regional office in Bury which will provide an operational base for Sinclair Voicenet’s growing sales and service teams,.

17th May 2013


Pay and conditions in contact centres survey

IDS survey of pay and conditions in call and contact centres 2013/14 - Take part now!

17th May 2013


PleasePress1 - new website highlights call centre shortcuts

A new website is mapping out how to get past the infuriating telephone menus that greet you when you call your bank, insurer or the tax office.

17th May 2013


The Call Centre: Trailer - BBC Three

Join CEO Nev Wilshire and his staff of extraordinary characters at their Swansea Call Centre - where no two days are ever the same.

17th May 2013


Jobs Created

Job Losses

 

Admiral Insurance - Various

Res-Q - 200 Jobs - Hull

Webhelp TSC - 50 Jobs -  Derby

Lloyds Banking Group - Southend

 

 


CCMA Award Winners 2013 and the winners are....

Neopost Shortlisted for 7 Call Centre Awards


Kwik-Fit Financial Services Deploy New Workforce Management System

DPD - ‘Express deliver’ revolutionary customer experience thanks to NVM


HCL Care signs agreement with Philips for contact centre service support and spare parts management

Chill Insurance awards AirSpeed Telecom €500k contract


O2 Confirm Transfer of Up To 3,700 Contact Centre Jobs to Capita

NS&I Awards Outsource Contract to ATOS


Noble Systems Adds Flexibility to Customer Contact Programs with Web Services

Ultra's new Dialler Guarantee provides up to £2 million protection against fines for excessive silent calls


Telephony Best for Complaint Handling & Customer Satisfaction

Bright UK white paper on Best Practice for Customer Satisfaction Surveying


Aspect - How Unified Comms can improve the Contact Centre

Aspect Strengthens Customer Company Interactions