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Employment Fears Grow Alongside AI Capabilities

A majority of UK adults are worried for the future of their jobs due to the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), a new report has revealed. According to the findings of think tank Fountech.ai, 67 percent of 2,000 adults polled are worried AI will...

Emotional intelligence and CX

We’ve all read so much about emotion in Customer Experience – we see articles about defining the emotions we want customers to experience with our brand and we watch videos emphasising the importance of recognising the emotional state of our...

Engaging Millennials: The Time is Now

Described as a ‘generation disrupted’, millennials are a pivotal talking point in every sphere. Deloitte’s most recent millennial survey uncovers the impact continuous change and instability has had on younger generations. Their lack of trust towards employers and business leaders...

How AI-Driven Contact Can Revolutionise Your Customer Relationships

It used to be that when someone said “AI”, images of sci-fi films came to mind. Nowadays, the effect is more prosaic: it’s become de rigeur to use AI as shorthand for “business wonder cure”. When we hear “AI”, we know we’re...

CXM Book Shelf: Employee Experience by Ben Whitter

There isn’t a lot that Ben Whitter doesn’t know about when it comes to employee engagement and getting the best out of a workforce. Known throughout the UK and further afield as Mr Employee Experience, the founder and Chief Experience Officer at...

‘Alexa, What’s the Future of Ecommerce?’

A growing number of UK customers are choosing to purchase from brands using smart speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, with the devices predicted to drive the next wave of ecommerce. In a study of 2,000 adults carried out...

Warning Over UK Employees’ Digital Skills Gap

A digital skills shortage is preventing employers from filling vacancies, new research warns. The UK Consumer Digital Index, from Lloyds Bank, has been examined by Reboot Online Digital Marketing Company, which discovered that while more than half of the UK uses the internet...

Kids Causing Summertime Blues for Home Workers

Summertime may be fun for the kids when school’s out, but for home workers it can lead to days filled with noise and distractions. With an ever-growing number of the UK workforce operating from home offices, the summer holidays can be a...

Ask Ian: How do we Combine Digital and Brick-and-Mortar for the Best Customer Experience?

Customer Experience specialist Ian Golding, author of Customer What: The Honest and Practical Guide to Customer Experience, writes for Customer Experience Magazine offering expert insight to help businesses improve their CX offering.  To ask Ian a question on how to boost the...

Smarter Communication: The key to Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace

The workplace as we know it is transforming, as digital innovation creates new ways of working and many employees operate across more devices, time zones, and locations than ever before. The uptake of flexible, off-site, and remote working trends has...