Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

June 2023

Microsoft Teams Outage, TM612617: Users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams using web browsers

This morning, Microsoft Teams suffered an outage with users unable to access Microsoft Teams unless they were using the Teams client. Editor’s Note: This outage lasted about 2 hours including the time to roll out a fix, Exoprise customers knew of the issue around 35 minutes before Microsoft. Exoprise proactive monitoring first detected the outage in North America starting at 7:20 AM EDT.

Call Center Training: Strategies for Empowering Your Agents

Looking to empower your call center agents and excel in customer service? This insightful guide provides a deep dive into call center training, offering eight strategic best practices for effective training. Learn how to align training with business goals, foster a culture of continuous learning, leverage technology, and more. Find out how Insightful, a leading workforce analytics platform, can help optimize your training programs for maximum efficiency.

Elevating Call Center Performance: 11 Crucial Skills for Successful Managers

Boost your call center's performance with these 11 key managerial skills. Dive deep into the roles and responsibilities of a call center manager and explore how to identify these skills during the hiring process. Also, see how an employee monitoring tool like Insightful can make call center management more effective and efficient.

Optimizing Security with Remote Desktop Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide

As remote work becomes the norm, businesses face new challenges in ensuring security and productivity. This guide takes you through the key issues, from cybersecurity and data privacy to employee monitoring and IT infrastructure management. Learn about the significance of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), the use of real-time screen monitoring, and the importance of balance between productivity, security, and privacy.

Averting Economic Stagnation through Employee Engagement

Understand the importance of employee engagement in averting economic stagnation. Discover how poor management impacts employee wellbeing, relationships, and the economy. Learn effective strategies for improving engagement, the role of effective management, and how evidence-based practices can drive engagement and productivity. Discover how Insightful's office performance tracking programs can help you implement these strategies and contribute to global economic growth.

18 Ecommerce Trends To Watch In 2023 (Categories Trends)

With changing consumer preferences and the new cutting-edge technology, the eCommerce landscape is constantly shaping itself. As we delve into 2023, many eCommerce trends have already changed how businesses operated and customers engaged with eCommerce platforms. From shopping personalization to voice commerce and drone delivery, the eCommerce industry is evolving amazingly.

Buddy Punching: What It Is And Effective Prevention Strategies

Have you ever seen employees covering for their co-workers by punching their time cards? Or maybe you’ve noticed inconsistencies in your payroll records, making you question your workforce’s honesty. If so, welcome to the world of “buddy punching,” where one employee punches in for another, causing payroll and HR issues for your business.

Workstatus Demo: Boost Your Team's Productivity

Welcome to the official demo video of Workstatus - the ultimate workforce management software designed to streamline your team's productivity and efficiency. In this comprehensive demonstration, we'll walk you through the powerful features and intuitive interface that make Workstatus a game-changer for businesses of all sizes.

How to Build a Successful Company Culture

Often, we think money administration is the most important aspect of a company’s success, but company culture can have an even greater impact. Company culture is the personality of a company, and it’s at the core of every company’s success. It’s the company’s values, beliefs, and behaviors that impact its employees. And, what can companies accomplish without staff? Not much, right?

Scaling a BPO: An Inside Look at ISTA Solutions' Success as a 'Business in a Box'

They delve deep into the robust growth, hurdles, and future of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.. Nicole Barrish is an accomplished professional with a 14-year career under the Towne Group. A Boston's Emerson College graduate, Nicole started as a staffing coordinator and rose to manage the Towne Home Care operations, turning it into one of New Jersey's top home care agencies. She later transitioned to ISTA Personnel Solutions as Director of Operations, now overseeing over 1000 employees providing customer support in the healthcare industry.

Creating a Project Charter in Asana: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the realm of project management, a project charter serves as a crucial document that outlines the fundamental aspects of a project. Certainly, it provides a clear understanding of project objectives, scope, deliverables, stakeholders, and timelines. Asana, a leading project management tool, offers a wealth of features that can streamline the process of creating a project charter.

Remote Work Challenges and How to Overcome Them

As our societal perception of remote work has gradually shifted from temporary to permanent, it’s time to take stock of the challenges of remote working and find ways to ensure that the future of remote work is sustainable. While remote working has many benefits, it also comes with a unique set of challenges that can impact productivity, communication, and overall well-being. According to the latest State of Remote Work report from Buffer, the top 6 struggles associated with working from home are.