7 Questions for Business

A column on the site SearchCRM from May of 2007 has a list of 14 Best Practices for managing remote call center agents.

It’s not a bad place to start when evaluating a remote program. Several of the points the article makes are valid. It talks about online training and doing a remote readiness evaluation.

However, the author makes a common error. She attempts to recreate a bricks and mortar environment remotely. Not only is this obviously impossible, it is undesirable. The real strength of a remote workforce is in the quality and flexibility of the people it attracts.