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Thrive and Genesys Partner to Help Businesses Counter the Employee Burnout Crisis<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Thrive Reset for Genesys enables businesses to incorporate well-being breaks into the workflow, resulting in higher employee satisfaction and better customer experiences <\/em><\/h2>\n

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Genesys<\/a>\u00ae, a leader in cloud customer experience orchestration, and Thrive<\/a>, the behaviour change technology company founded by Arianna Huffington, are partnering to help organisations transform their relationship with employees. The best customer experiences start with happy employees. Yet today, employee well-being has become the most urgent workplace issue of our time.<\/p>\n

Thrive and Genesys recognise technology has a powerful role to play. But technology focused solely on business efficiency and effectiveness won\u2019t enable better employee relationships and only serves to fuel more burnout. To improve the employee experience, Thrive and Genesys are introducing a first-of-its-kind solution that enables organisations to embed well-being tools directly in the workflow itself so workers can de-stress, reset and recharge in real time. Results from an early pilot with a Fortune 10 retailer showed both improved employee well-being and increased customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n

While the global epidemic of employee stress and burnout was growing even before the pandemic, it now has been compounded as many people begin their third year of remote or hybrid work. The blurring of the lines between work and home has created an always-on culture that leaves no time to decompress. Employees everywhere are buckling under sustained, cumulative stress. This has fueled \u201cThe Great Resignation\u201d and has accelerated the growing mental health crisis.<\/p>\n

Organisations can reinvent their relationship with employees by taking an empathy-first approach. That\u2019s why Thrive and Genesys created a solution aimed at improving people\u2019s overall well-being, helping them to achieve more clarity, balance and focus on the job. With Thrive Reset for Genesys, the customer experience industry now has an employer-initiated stress intervention solution for frontline workers that is science-backed and designed to focus on the root causes of burnout.<\/p>\n

Empathy-enabled Technology: the Future of Customer and Employee Experiences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across industries, customer service departments have been a critical lifeline for consumers, who have required unprecedented levels of support to deal with challenges related to the pandemic, economic volatility, and societal strain. At the same time, many contact centre employees have been stretched thin, handling increasingly tense customers while working virtually from an isolated environment for organisations that are short-staffed. According to a Cornell University study<\/a>, nearly 90 percent of contact centre operators report high or very high-stress levels. In addition, even before the pandemic the average attrition rate for contact centre workers<\/a> was two times that of other occupations.<\/p>\n

Now, businesses using Genesys to orchestrate their customer experiences have a proactive way to help their employees course-correct from stress in 60 seconds based on proven neuroscience methodology. With the new empathy-led offering from Genesys and Thrive, organisations can intervene in their employees\u2019 workday by delivering well-being breaks straight to their desktops when they\u2019re needed the most.<\/p>\n

For example, imagine the stress an agent experiences during an intense interaction with a frustrated customer. Instead of another call being thrown into the queue, the employee is given a brief video-based break designed to reduce stress and help them reset. As a result, the next customer is dealt with by an employee who is recharged and better prepared to deliver great service, instead of one coming directly off a stressful experience. An early trial of the offering showed employees who experienced Thrive Resets, received greater customer satisfaction ratings (+5%), higher productivity scores (+17%) and better overall satisfaction levels with their employer.<\/p>\n

Organisations can download Thrive Reset for Genesys with a simple click and customise the timing of the breaks to address their employees\u2019 needs. For example, Thrive Reset may be triggered due to long call durations, a certain number of calls handled or hours worked with no downtime. In the future, Genesys and Thrive plan to enable the automatic delivery of well-being breaks for employees during critical times using technologies like real-time AI-based sentiment analysis determined by key factors including mood of the previous interaction, behaviour and tone of voice.<\/p>\n

Thrive Reset for Genesys will be available in March to businesses via the Genesys AppFoundry<\/a>, a dedicated customer and employee experience marketplace.<\/p>\n