Pay is not worth the mental Depletion - Customer Retention Representative HGS Employee Review

2.0
Feb 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Work From Home -Equipment provided to you.

Cons

-Does not pay above livable wage anywhere in Canada for call center agents. (2 places maybe come close) -Work is Mentally draining and extremely fast paced with very little breathing room (They only permit 30 Seconds After call work before you MUST be on another call) -Agent support initially was good but they clearly are not staffing enough subject matter experts and TL's to handle the queue flow (can take anywhere from 20-40 minutes to get a answer.) -Customers are very pushy and often you are the Piñata for the clients decisions (a rate increase happens and you get allot of heat for it) -The company rarely lets employees take downtime on approach to holiday season (November/December) and usually expects people to work holidays/weekends for preferable shift allocation. -Client company often has extremely high and unreasonable expectations they say its not a sales role but the company makes you constantly hawk offers even to arguably irate customers, only further marring and damaging relations with them as it conveys tone deafness in a climate where a depresson is setting in.

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HGS Response
2y
Hello! We sincerely apologize for the unfortunate experience you had at HGS. To help us improve, we would appreciate it if you could share more details. Please don't hesitate to contact us at Talk2us@teamhgs.com.

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