While technology offers many opportunities in the quest to deliver a more proactive and efficient customer experience, it’s the human interactions between brands and their customers that often make the difference, writes Oli Freestone, Institute Lead at Capita.

As summer draws to a close, many of the short-term measures put in place to help UK citizens and businesses to get through the Coronavirus pandemic are also ending.

Many vulnerable people live in social housing, and their landlords have a legal obligation to protect their safety and wellbeing at home.

We’ve just commissioned some independent research into “Fairness in Collections” to gain a deeper insight into the issues facing people who are in debt.

Emergency services across the UK can now exchange details of incidents with one another quickly and accurately – and Capita has been there right from the start.

The pandemic isn’t only affecting us as individuals – it’s affecting us as societies and economies too.

Research done over the past few years has shown that having people of different genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, ages and physical and mental abilities within your organisation is good for all sorts of things from innovation and creativity to engagement and retention.

Amid the latest challenges, the public sector has to field urgent and emergency calls in order to look after citizens in their time of need.

When an emergency occurs, the public need to be able to call on dependable customer support. A specialist out-of-hours service could be the answer.

As a market leader in debt management, we are witnessing first-hand the devastating financial impact Covid-19 is having on the personal finances of so many people.