subject: Bpo Jobs And Call Center Jobs A Good Career Option [print this page] A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for the purpose of receiving
and transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone. A call centre is operated
by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from
consumers. Outgoing calls for telemarketing, clientele, product services, and
debt collection are also made. In addition to a call centre, collective handling
of letters, faxes, live chat, and e-mails at one location is known as a contact
centre.
A call centre is often operated through an extensive open workspace for call
centre agents, with work stations that include a computer for each agent, a
telephone set/headset connected to a telecom switch, and one or more supervisor
stations. It can be independently operated or networked with additional centres,
often linked to a corporate computer network, including mainframes, microcomputers
and LANs. Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the centre are linked
through a set of new technologies called computer telephony integration (CTI).