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Hello Sydney – a giant leap for Intercom’s remote APAC team

Intercom, Inc.

For us to be available whenever our customers need help, we staff a team across multiple time zones that operates practically 24/7 all year round. World class, awesome, human customer support comes first, offices come later. Simultaneously, I’ve watched the APAC customer base increase more than 900%.

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To Manage a Call Center Efficiently see what Employees Really Think

Upscope

I always place my customer on hold for 3 mins and I just stare at the monitor. Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. Customer support working from home What did they say in the comments section?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

We have a customer engagement organization that encompasses all of our customer facing teams. So as a part of this organization we have sales, we have DBRs, we have customer success, we have customer experimentation, and we have customer support. You have a huge obligation to your customer, right?