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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

In fact, Gartner reports that by 2025, 60% of contact centers will have implemented AI-driven workforce management tools to help optimize scheduling and resource allocation. Executive Guide to 6 Call Center Metrics What is Workforce Management in a Call Center? higher adherence rate than those without.

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Verint Is Uniquely Positioned to Address the Needs of SMB Customers

Monet Software

As a long-time industry analyst focused on the contact center workforce optimization market, I have long questioned why small to medium-size (SMB) businesses do not get more love from the major WFO vendors. Smaller businesses do not have enough staff to maintain acceptable service levels in the event of absences.

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CX Moneyball: Running the Numbers to Cover Your Bases

BlueOcean

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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Schedule like a Boss

Monet Software

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at Many contact center managers, however, don’t realize how much more value their scheduling activity can deliver to employees, beyond letting agents know when to show up for shifts. the Same Time. We all love a win-win.

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

The contact center workforce was already going remote. The call center industry was beyond the experimental phase of work-from-home before COVID-19 hit. Numerous companies had adopted it as their sole workforce model, among them many SMBs that found in remote agents a flexible, low-overhead workforce option.

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Workforce Management Basics in Today’s Contact Center: Part 2

NICE inContact

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. Shift bidding is another popular technique to engage your workforce in the scheduling process, providing agents with a voice in the scheduling process while still meeting business needs.

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Workforce Management Basics in Today’s Contact Center: Part 2

NICE inContact

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. Shift bidding is another popular technique to engage your workforce in the scheduling process, providing agents with a voice in the scheduling process while still meeting business needs.