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Originally posted on ICMI.com November 5th, 2018 People love to talk about Employee Experience (EX), especially in the context of Customer Experience (CX). Sadly, it's often just talk. Establishing a meaningful connection between your employee experience and the Customer Experience is very difficult. Does this make it any less important? Not at all.
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Originally posted on ICMI.com November 5th, 2018 People love to talk about Employee Experience (EX), especially in the context of Customer Experience (CX). Sadly, it's often just talk. Establishing a meaningful connection between your employee experience and the Customer Experience is very difficult. Does this make it any less important? Not at all.
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