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How to Recession-Proof Your Contact Center, According to 360+ Executives

Balto

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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Operational Indicators – Sevice Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Taylor Reach Group

time spent by the customers navigating the IVR menu). In practice, Call Centers set their overall target (both percentage of calls and the threshold) in conjunction with their Work Force Management (WFM) process in order to calculate their staff requirements and scheduling (more on that in later sections). Occupancy Rate.