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Remote Workers in the Contact Center

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: July 2005
Product Code: R313-11204
Description
Introduction
The brief provides an assessment of remote workers market in the contact center. It identifies the key business drivers, technology enablers and barriers to remote workers growth and assesses the opportunities currently available to technology vendors.

Scope
Analysis on the key business drivers, technology enablers and barriers to the growth of the remote workers market
Market size and composition: how the remote workers market is set to grow through 2009
Analysis of the vertical deployments of the remote workers model
Highlights
Although currently in the early adopter stage, the remote workers model is gaining acceptance and by 2009, 7.5% of agents will sit outside of the traditional contact center

The most growth will come from mature markets in North America and EMEA, and in particular vertical markets: financial services, government, retail, and outsourcing

The emerging remote workers market presents new opportunities for vendors of Contact Center technology

Reasons to Purchase
Understand the business drivers and technology enablers to the growth of remote workers and respond with appropriate solutions
Learn where the opportunities are, both vertically and in terms of which Contact Center component technologies will be the most successful

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT DATAMONITOR 2

WHY REMOTE WORKERS? 5

Business Drivers for the growth of remote workers 5

Lower operational costs 5

Geographical flexibility 6

Access to a larger distributed and new pool of talent 6

Improved service levels and customer satisfaction 6

Technology enablers 7

Barriers to remote worker growth 9

Management control 9

Technology limitation 9

Cultural resistance 10

Security issues 10

MARKET GROWTH 11

Vertical uptake 13

Financial Services 13

Retail 14

Outsourcing 14

Public sector 14

Healthcare 15

Travel 15

Technology 15

ACTION POINTS 16

APPENDIX 17

Supplementary data 17

Definitions 18

Future readings 18

SPP writing team 19

How to contact experts in your industry 19





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