Businesses have to adapt to cyclical changes and prepare themselves for a changing world. When operations are being disrupted, a solid business continuity plan (BCP) is essential to ensuring that systems and workflows remain intact. 

After having to completely transform overnight, the BPO industry now finds itself poised at its next impasse. Is work-at-home simply a business continuity plan, or is it the new table stakes for the industry. It's at these moments it's good to take a measured review of how ready the industry was and what it's doing to prepare for the future.  

On April 22 2020, Sudhir Agarwal, Founder and CEO for Everise, and Ryan Hollenbeck, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for Verint hosted a webinar for over 500 participants, providing guidance on how businesses can adapt and respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

Everise provides premium customer support for many vital industries, but our sector of deepest domain expertise is undoubtedly healthcare, where our primary specialty is member and provider support for health insurance companies. Within the insurance space, we specialize in serving Medicare patients – precisely the group at highest risk for complications caused by COVID-19.

Everise first started our home-based CX solution in 2018, when we offered the opportunity to our first champion to work from her home to be with her daughter. Since then, we have learned a few things about what makes it successful and sustainable.

With quarantines and lockdowns still in effect, Everisers are now working from home. This herculean transition was so swift and successful that our champions and leaders around the world decided to celebrate it with a song. We hope this makes you smile.

With US unemployment projected to reach up to 20%, work-at-home jobs will be the new normal for many people. For those who have never worked from home before, especially in a customer support role, it's important to know what you need in order to land a job. 

The process of communication and learning has never been easier thanks the current state of technology. Learning methods have continuously evolved to suit people’s needs throughout the years and are now taking place inside a virtual platform. Here are some tips for participants and facilitators to succeed in their virtual training.

As global circumstances compel businesses to rapidly adopt work-at-home customer support solutions, many are faced with a critical, yet often overlooked, decision: whether to engage with home-based workers on a contract or full-time basis.

For the last two years, Everise has been investing in our work-at-home solution, and Christina Hackwell, was work-at-home employee number one. As a Team Lead for work-at-home in our Utah Home-Based Agent solution, her story is more important than ever. Amidst a global pandemic, working at home has become the new normal. Her she shares her the origin story, of how Everise helped her maintain a work-life balance through our work-at-home program.