Articles - Employee Experience (EX)

A great employee experience (EX) is the foundation of a successful contact centre. This hub of expert insights, research, and practical strategies explores how to design a workplace where people feel supported, valued, and motivated to perform at their best. Learn how to improve communication, recognition, and wellbeing while removing barriers that create frustration or disengagement. The content also highlights how a positive employee experience directly impacts customer satisfaction, productivity, and retention, helping you build a culture where people and performance thrive together.

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What Should You Do When You Think a Customer Is Lying?
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15 CX Best Practices From Transport for Greater Manchester
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How to Cultivate an Aligned Leadership Team
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7 Ways to Help Your Agents Embrace Change
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10 Smarter Ways to Use AI Augmentation
Video Image: 5 Ways Workforce Management Is Evolving
5 Ways Workforce Management Is Evolving
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What’s Really Holding CX Team Leaders Back?
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How to Improve Agent Work–Life Balance
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Is AI the Biggest Career Opportunity Agents Have Ever Had?
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What Does It Take to Build a Truly Empowered Workforce?
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How to Create a More Neuroinclusive Contact Centre
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Do You Know the Hidden Cost of AHT?
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5 Hard Truths About Attrition
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Free People Up for the Highest-Value Parts of CX
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Is a Competency Framework Your Answer to Attrition?
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Stop Hand-Holding Your Agents – Just Like This!
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Smarter Ways to Give Agents Better Work/Life Balance
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Are These Roles Missing in Your Contact Centre?
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5 Tactics to Help You Lead Through Constant Change
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How to Strengthen Agents’ Trust in AI
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7 Ways to Help Agents Fight the ‘Forgetting Curve’
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Why the Best Contact Centres Will Combine Agentic AI With Human Judgement
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Are Customers Really Ruder When They Can Hide Behind the Phone?
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Make QA That Bit Easier on Everyone