Treating customers with empathy has been an increasingly important area of focus within the customer experience industry.

While technology offers many opportunities to deliver a more proactive and efficient customer experience, it’s the human interactions between brands and their customers that often make the difference.

What is it that gets you out of bed in the morning? What is it that @Jack Parsons, CEO of the Youth Group, calls the ‘duvet flip’?
For many people, and especially young people, it’s the dream of running their own business – of taking a nugget of an idea, something they are passionate about, and making it real.

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.

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.

As a signatory of the armed forces covenant we're proud to share powerful stories of resilience and dedication from veterans, reservists and military spouses.

Transparency, accessibility, and control. When supporting job seekers back into the world of work through government schemes – especially in a time as volatile as now – these three imperatives are a good place to start.

No organisation operates in a vacuum. Rather, its interdependencies are many and manifest.

Can debt really be considered good? And do we need more of it? At Tortoise Media’s recent ‘The Future of Money’ event I was invited to consider this alongside finance coach and author of Black Girl Finance, Selina Flavius, and the co-author of Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan.

Ricky Alfred, Capita Customer Management’s Head of Responsible Business, reflects on the need to support vulnerable customers - and how organisations, customer service agents and Capita can all make a difference.