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.

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.

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.

Our partnership with Severn Trent has given their customers a better experience and aided with debt collection.

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.

We’re helping the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) deal with a huge surge in calls to its Universal Credit helpline from vulnerable citizens during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Our approach to debt collection is built on empathy, steering customers to the right payment outcomes whilst helping maintain your reputation for great customer service.

Stoke-on-Trent shares real-time data seamlessly across departments and systems with our Single View software for efficient decision-making and quality services.