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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

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As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Improving Average Handle Time (AHT). contactcenter #2020trends Click To Tweet. Social Media ?

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Source: Human Resource Management; Issue: 51(4); 2012; Pages 535-548. Average handling times (AHT) increase. This can be achieved if all agents are trained on both campaigns so that the queue hold time can be reduced. Repeat calls went down, but so did average handle time! Errors happen.

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Selection, Implementation and Use: The Journey of Contact Center Technology with Joe Rice

Vistio

And in 2012, I decided to make the jump to the indirect or referral partner channels, where a lot of these big Gartner ranked vendors across contact center and unified communications and networking have these really robust programs that enable partners, or referral brokers, or agents to basically add value around the purchasing process.