Story Brief

Utility portals are often framed as customer experience tools: a place to pay bills, review usage, report outages and manage accounts. But they serve another purpose, too: When they improve how frontline work is done, they serve as powerful employee support systems. An employee-friendly portal frees customer service representatives (CSRs) from everyday tasks like answering routine questions.

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