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Banging on the boardroom door: Let customer service in!
While customers are increasingly irate with call centre agents - some of us spewing combinations of expletives that would make a convict blush - no corporate solution to shut us up has yet registered. Like Sprint, many companies are throwing more warm bodies at the problem. Sure, beefing up staff in call centres across the country may reduce phone wait times, but is this solution really going to restore our faith in industries that continue to fail us?
Emphasizing customer service at the corporate level is working for some companies - such as JetBlue Airways, which has a "Customer Bill of Rights". That type of directive coming down from the boardroom is bound to have positive effect on how a company treats its customers, said Chip Gliedman, a Forrester Research analyst. Considering the praise the relative newcomer has earned lately, it shows.
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