Call center conversations are packed with valuable information. But, it can seem like a near-impossible task to sift through all call records for valuable, actionable information.
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Here, we will consider how to better use call center conversations to your company’s advantage, particularly in terms of improved sales and NPS as well as decreased compliance risk. Then, we will explore how NeoSound’s speech analytics solution software can make applying these improvements infinitely easier.

​Future Internationale was fined €500,000 in November 2019 for infringing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to implement clients’ opt-out requests and recording excessive comments during cold calling campaigns.

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, the data protection authority in France, signaled that companies must inform their prospective customers about their rights while cold calling and allow them the option to access the company’s privacy policy via phone or email. Companies also need to be conscious of the information they provide consumers and the comments that they record.

Nearly 100 people were infected with coronavirus in a Seoul call center, forming the biggest COVID-19 cluster to date in Seoul, South Korea.

Call centers are literally a hotspot for infectious outbreaks because they typically have large numbers of people on a single floor.

Many businesses have already asked their staff to work from home to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus amongst their employees. Last Friday, March 13, Cloudflare's co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince sent out an email to all its customers noting a 10% increase in Internet usage patterns in regions impacted by COVID-19. Peak Internet traffic has surged 30% in Italy which has had a national lockdown.
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If your system does not allow your employees to work from home, you have to figure out a contingency plan so you can continue to monitor your employees and route calls even when they're at home.