Call Centre (s) Culture in-making

Initiation to this subject:
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit by Laura Penny

Return on Investment (ROI) - visual measures:
•Call Centre Culture
Ok, this will probably bore y'all to tears, but a recent email to a friend reminded me that call centre have their own unique language and culture that not everyone speaks....so, here's a primer on the language.....
talk time - the amount of time spent on each call. Where I work, the goal is 140 seconds per call. Mine is usually about 120

•Call Centers Suck
One of the hardest parts of this job is not the rote behavior or the lack of freedom, but the knowledge that the hundred people that I talk to on a daily basis do not make the connection that they are speaking to a human being and therefore the “Golden Rule” does not apply. I have been called every name in the book. My life has been threatened. The insinuation that I am somehow “lesser” because I am on the receiving end of that call is a constant current that flows just under the surface of my workday.

•Striking the wrong chord
Screaming at the top of your voice every time you lose your temper can cause more trouble than giving you a bad throat. Doctors say misuse of voice, or rather, overuse of voice can lead to vocal fold ruptures....
Doctors say tension at workplace and an overload of work can worsen the problem. “When patients approach us with problems, we suggest they take sessions with a speech therapist. We guide them about vocal hygiene. Sometimes, depending on the severity of the problem — like in case of polyps — surgery is the only option,” said Dr Ameet Kishore at Apollo Hospital.

•Taking Catalog Calls
One thing is clear, that this is NOT the place to work if you want any sort of job satisfaction or career growth. The whole place is a virtual revolving door of customers and employees.

Issues:
•The Great Telemarketing Lie
•Shining India’s swanky new sweatshops
•Call Center Services Online
Among all the changes which one sees- some good, some bad, some real and some just cosmetic, the most conspicuous to me was the seemingly increasing outsourcing of the American lifestyle to the youth of India.
•Call Center Killers and How To Prevent Them
The call center debate

Occupational Hazards:
•Capture-Recapture Estimation of Unreported Work-Related. Musculoskeletal Disorders in Connecticut.
•Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Googlesphere and
•Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Googlesphere
•call-centres "hearing loss'
•Shocking News About Call Centres. With the growth of the call centre industry, acoustic shock may become a major new occupational injury of the 21st century ...
•Patel JA, Broughton K.Assessment of the noise exposure of call centre operators. Ann Occup Hyg. 2002 Nov;46(8):653-61. PMID: 12406859
•Alexander RW, Koenig AH, Cohen HS, Lebo CP.
The effects of noise on telephone operators. J Occup Med. 1979 Jan;21(1):21-5. PMID: 759592
•Daniell WE, Fulton-Kehoe D, Cohen M, Swan SS, Franklin GM.
Increased reporting of occupational hearing loss: workers' compensation in Washington State, 1984-1998. Am J Ind Med. 2002 Dec;42(6):502-10. PMID: 12439873
•Daniell WE, Swan SS, McDaniel MM, Stebbins JG, Seixas NS, Morgan MS.
Noise exposure and hearing conservation practices in an industry with high incidence of workers' compensation claims for hearing loss. Am J Ind Med. 2002 Oct;42(4):309-17. PMID: 12271478
•Call Centre Noise Hazards - Over 1 Million Call Centre Operators ...Call Centre Noise Hazards - Over 1 Million Call Centre Operators in the UK at Risk, PRNewswire. Entf. ...

Books:
•The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity by Alan Cooper
•For more books see my Listmania Amazon.com:
Call Centre / Customer Service: A Culture in making

PS. Thanks to Aysha for the new book @ Amazon.