The tier 1 help desk is one of the most essential aspects of effective IT support. Done well, it can engage with end-users, and act as a single point of contact for colleague faults, requests, feedback, and questions, as well as an escalation point to other services. Even though it's only the second layer in the 5 levels of IT support, all too often the tier 1 aspect of support is overworked and underappreciated. So it's time to change that!

IT support and service delivery mechanisms are changing. End-users are used to Amazon, Facebook, and Google levels of customer experience, so building a tier 0 help desk offering in your organization should be seen as a priority. Done well, this ground-zero level of IT support can empower end-users and help your agents to focus on more technical matters. But what is actually tier 0?

So you’re looking to start a career in IT. Good for you! IT jobs have been a dream for young professionals in recent years thanks to the rapid changes in the technology landscape. High pay, high demand, what’s not to like? However, in order to get started properly in IT, there are a few things that you need to get right. What are the possible career paths for you in IT? What skills do you need to start your career in IT? Can IT skills alone help you secure a job at the help desk?

If there's no proper offboarding process in place, organizations can easily lose track of the necessary steps to terminate a business relationship. This, of course, includes employees returning equipment and can be the cause of data and money loss. Not retrieving equipment from workers can pose a severe security issue since devices can contain confidential information and credentials to multiple company platforms and cloud services.

"Experience" has become the buzzword for quite some time now. We all think and talk about it, but it hardly ever changes anything. One reason for this is that the word "experience" (and Experience Management, for that matter) is a VERY broad term and can be leveraged for many different outcomes. However, we can take a narrow approach when it comes to service and support by focusing on just one aspect: personalized support.

Look through think pieces and conversations over the course of the last two years and you’ll find a lot of talk about the acceleration of digital transformation. Now that the dust has settled, we can safely say that many of the grand predictions about the future of work have taken place.

HR and IT collaboration may just be the answer to all of your employee experience problems. In a world where team members and companies alike are facing immense challenges with adapting and changing, IT solutions are what the HR department needs to enhance employee experience, and the people element is what the IT department lacks to create a holistic technology solution for everyone.

At this point, it’s not new that at InvGate, we always keep improving and to bring you the best experience – and December is not an exception. We have new features and updates that include: Let’s get started.

Human Resources can automate several processes to improve employee experience and increase the department's efficiency. We already covered onboarding, and now it's time for employee offboarding automation. Though it might be a bit neglected, the offboarding process is as crucial as any other HR task, mostly for security and economic reasons. It helps you protect both your company's data and assets, especially in remote work environments.

Support teams are used to receive requests of all kinds. When building a help desk from scratch, organizations use the 5-level structure to assign tickets according to the agents’ knowledge and expertise. This is a key step in order to properly solve problems as quickly as possible, and comply with SLAs. In , you can set up your structure to manage your agents’ labor by using help desks. You can organize them by labels and sub-labels, making it easy to scale tickets, if necessary.