The growing availability of homeshoring jobs is an outward
sign of a mini "industrial revolution" which is taking
place in the customer service industry of the United States
and Canada.
Homeshoring companies are looking for people to fill home
based customer service agent positions all over the USA and
Canada. Being able to find home-based employment will help
many people caught in the poverty trap of low/fixed incomes
because of difficult circumstances. These people include
many stay-at-home parents who can't go out to work because
the cost of childcare is prohibitive. Work at home jobs
will also help disabled persons, students and senior
citizens who need extra income to eke out their pensions.
What Is Homeshoring?
Homeshoring describes the practice of using home-based
telecommuting staff to handle call center work. Jobs which
were previously outsourced to overseas centers and filled
by foreign workers are now being kept onshore.
Outsourcing was a huge trend in the 1990's because foreign
labour was much cheaper and companies could also save a lot
of money on overheads incurred in buying and maintaining
buildings to accommodate staff. Customer service workers
in the United States were hit hard by job losses, but the
balance has altered and home-based customer service agents
are once again needed.
Homeshoring and Customer Satisfaction
Homeshoring is a great example of how customer opinion can
make a dramatic change to the way big businesses work.
Customers got totally fed up with being forced to deal with
agents at foreign call centers because of the difficulty in
understanding what they were saying. Simple queries were
frustrating enough but, people seeking specialised advice,
(eg things such as technical help with a computer issue)
were outraged at the level of assistance the companies in
question were providing.
Of course, dissatisfied customers did not return to
companies where they had experienced such low levels of
customer service, and the companies' profits showed
something was seriously wrong. Shareholders in the
companies were not at all happy, so something had to be
done to achieve improved levels of customer satisfaction.
Homeshoring Virtual Careers
Customers scored a resounding victory over the industries
with poor customer service records, but companies did not
want to go back to the former system of staffing call
centers. After all, the outsourcing experiment started
partly because of the high overheads involved in employing
staff to work in physical call centers. Fortunately (for
people who want to work at home as well as for the
companies who want to save money) the Internet offers a
solution in the form of virtual assistance work at home.
Instead of companies having actual call centers, people who
want to work at home set up their own "virtual call
centers" in their home and offer their services for virtual
assistance jobs. The only equipment needed to set up a
basic home call center is a dedicated phone line and a
personal computer with high speed Internet connection.
This mini industrial revolution is quietly changing the
lives of many people who are finding employment at home
through homeshoring companies.
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Elaine Currie helps people to make money online at her Free
Work At Home Directory at http://www.huntingvenus.com
For information about homeshoring jobs and homeshoring
companies, visit: http://www.huntingvenus.com/homeshoring/
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