With XPhone Connect against Covid-19

The city of Deggendorf used XPhone Connect to combat the Covid-19 crisis: the communications solution not only enabled the central organisation & coordination of a uniform click-and-collect concept for the city's retail trade, but also brought a large proportion of employees into the home office.

Although the city had equipped almost the entire town council with softphones & headsets since the first Covid-19 wave, more than 30 employees had to remain in the office. This was because around 90 % of calls were received via hotlines, which until then had tied employees to their offices.

The solution to this problem is TeamDesk hotline management: employees can log on to hotlines and take calls regardless of their location. The IT department was consequently able to equip the entire administration as well as all other areas without public traffic for home office use.

Thanks to the analytics function, the city was able to evaluate the loss rate of the hotlines for the first time: "We were sometimes really shocked at how many calls could not be answered," explains Thomas Seidl, network administrator of the city of Deggendorf.

In response, the staff was increased and two additional hotline workstations were set up in the citizens' centre, which significantly improved the service level to the satisfaction of the citizens.