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10 Tips to Manage a Help Desk - Workload Management, Motivation, And More!

Properly learning how to manage a help desk is crucial for the success of any organization, both internally amongst its different departments, and with external customers. Smoothly operating one is no easy ride; it requires juggling multiple tasks and coordinating diverse teams.

Skills-based routing: definition, process and best practice

If you have a large support team, it can be difficult to maintain complex workflows. In an ideal world, your team would easily distribute tickets to the people who know how to handle them best – with no time lost unnecessarily bouncing support tickets between different agents or departments. Without the right tools, teams have to use cumbersome and costly workarounds to route tickets to the right places.

Fill knowledge gaps with the Knowledge Capture app

A comprehensive knowledge base is an essential piece of any 21st-century support operation. But implementing it is just the first step – maintenance comes next. The best way to maintain your knowledge base is by harvesting support agents’ collective knowledge – but they’re often swamped and enabling their contributions can be a huge operational hurdle. Fortunately, you can easily capture content using the Zendesk Knowledge Capture app, which helps agents in three key ways.

Employee Monitoring for Performance Review

Are you curious about how performance evaluation can impact employee productivity and organizational success in today’s fast-paced business world? Want to know why many companies are adopting employee monitoring as a powerful tool for accurate and objective performance assessment? Stay tuned as we delve into the importance of employee monitoring for performance reviews!

Why Elon Musk is wrong: The ethical advantages of working from home

Hello there, everyone! Let’s get into an issue that has recently been trending on the internet. We’ve all heard of Elon Musk, the real-life Iron Man, rocket scientist, and electric car pioneer. When Musk speaks, the entire world pays attention. And recently, he made some statements regarding working from home that left many of us perplexed. Working from home, according to Elon, is “morally wrong.” Isn’t that a bold claim?

Iteration: The foundation of a sustainable workplace strategy

A refrain that I hear often these days is that the pandemic forever changed the way we work. And yet, just three years later, it’s not uncommon to see companies requiring their workforces to be in-person full time, in large part because it’s easier for business leaders to revert to the circumstances with which they’re most comfortable and familiar.

Chatbots: Empowering Customer Service Amid Turbulent Times

Chatbots are fast becoming part of the digital core of tech tools that companies utilize as a secret weapon to increase their competitive advantage in the customer service arena. At the same time, chatbots are solving a very real problem taking place today: of a decrease in available customer service agents and positive customer experiences due to an economic downturn. Some of the biggest corporations in the world are experiencing layoffs.

Zulip 7.0: Threaded open-source team chat

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 7.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed to help people collaborate to solve any challenge. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Fortune 500 companies, leading open-source projects, and thousands of other organizations use Zulip every day.

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams

Issues with Microsoft Teams can be very impactful for organizations. There is a huge loss in productivity associated with teams performance issues and outages, it is also extremely disruptive to workflows. There are also financial costs to these issues, at the end-user level this can cause end users to miss deadlines and delay projects and the cost of IT Teams spending time troubleshooting or requiring external consultants or even Microsoft to assist, this cost adds up over periods of time.

How Product Managers Can Do More With Less

In today’s fast-paced world, Product Managers are constantly challenged to deliver exceptional results while juggling limited resources. We understand your struggles and are here to equip you with the strategies, techniques, and insider tips that will transform your approach. Get ready to boost your productivity and efficiency as a Product Manager!