Research & Insight

Research & Insight

Frost & Sullivan

Outsourcing Provides a New Method for Customer Service for Online UK Retailer Using Home-Based Agents

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

High-level customer service is essential for online. Ramping up and down call center staff due to seasonal fluctuations make it challenging to provide the kind of top-notch customer service this segment expects. Shop Direct tried a new approach for the UK: using home-based agents. Here is its success story.

How Many IT Jobs Actually Went Offshore? And Where Did They Go? Frost & Sullivan’s Study Finds Out

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

A new Frost & Sullivan report has the answer: Over the last three years the high-cost nations sent 826,540 IT jobs to developing countries, creating an install base of 7,599,540 IT jobs in the developing countries it studied. India got a lion’s share of those jobs, but Poland was the fastest-growing offshore location for IT outsourcing. This comprehensive study supplies facts on offshore ITO.

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