Is it Safe to do Business in Mexico?

At Centris, we are a nearshore contact center that focuses on bilingual call center support services. In other words, we are a US-based company that houses a large portion of our operations in Mexico. Our two nearshore contact centers are located in Monterrey, Mexico and Aguascalientes, Mexico. We chose Mexico as our nearshore location because […]

Transitioning Your Call Center Operations to Mexico

Here at Centris, we have been helping our customers with their contact center needs for more than twenty years. Over the course of these past two decades we have seen, first hand, how the call center has become an integral part of business operations. As technology has advanced, it has made it possible and necessary […]

Rising Minimum Wages in US Impact In-House Contact Centers

In today’s corporate environment, there are many factors that impact an organization’s bottom line.  Perhaps none are as important as the wage structure that determines employee pay. The issue of wages has been a hot topic recently; particularly that of minimum wage. Many U.S. politicians believe the U.S. minimum wage is too low ($7.25 per […]

The Benefits of the 48-hour Work Week In Mexico

In the United States, the 40-hour work week has been the law since 1940. As early as 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which basically required employers to pay employees overtime if they worked more than 44 hours per week. In fact, going back a little further, Henry Ford began advancing the idea […]

Contact Center Outsourcing for the Insurance Company

Each of us, at one time or another, has interacted with a contact center customer service agent.  Online ordering of products and services are typically handled by a contact center. Additionally, your cable and wireless providers utilize a contact center to handle customer inquiries along with an array of other issues.    Contact centers have long […]

How Live Chat Impacts Online Sales and CSAT

One of the best aspects of being in the customer service business is the number of ways that we can communicate with customers today. Yes, phone and e-mail are still in the mix of communication but in recent years, Live Chat has quickly grown in popularity from being a “nice-to-have” to being a “must-have.” In […]