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Top 5 Best Practices for Successfully Transitioning from Onsite to an At-Home Contact Center Workforce

Noble Systems

Other essential software technologies to consider for your cloud-based contact center include WFM for schedule optimization; analytics to uncover trends and assist agents during a transaction; and advanced IVR to create new flows or self-service programs to enrich the customer’s experience.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Workforce optimization tools automate the operational performance management processes, providing added muscle to workforce management (WFM), quality management (QM), agent coaching , analytics, and reporting. WEM adds the element of employee engagement as the linchpin to delivering outstanding CX.

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Defining WFO. (Hint – It’s Not Just About Workforce Management)

Noble Systems

WFO is often used by call centers to improve workforce management and agent performance – and in turn, the customer experience. WFO is not just a single component; it bridges the span of the contact center to tie activities into an integrated strategy, working towards common business goals. Workforce Management.

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Employee Engagement and Better Customer Engagement in 2016

Verint

While you may or may not have previously considered gamification a key part of these employee engagement efforts, it can help keep your employees focused on what matters and what helps drive the bottom line. After all, those are the people who serve your customers and help determine if they stay loyal or not.

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Workforce Management Basics in Today’s Contact Center: Part 1

NICE inContact

While workforce management is a discipline with many detailed moving parts, WFM activities really boil down to four basic components – forecasting, scheduling, intraday management, and employee engagement. Forecasting and scheduling are the first half of the equation as it relates to contact center workforce management basics.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost.

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Make Life Easier for Your Entire Workforce

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Here are a few examples: Software tools that use advanced human-computer interface techniques: As seen in modern UIs, graphical icon and widget-based dashboards show employees exactly what they need to know at a glance. Stay tuned for our next blog explaining how we are using Workforce AI to make life easier for the entire workforce.