Monet Software

JANUARY 20, 2021

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. There are approximately 70,000 contact centers in the United States, and 88 percent of these have 150 or fewer agents.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. WFM to the rescue.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. It’s time to introduce a ‘less haste, more speed’ culture supported by the latest technology. Here, he explains how to build highly effective teams using workforce. management (WFM).

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Companies are re-evaluating their salary structures as they struggle to hire people for traditionally low-level jobs, including: contact center/customer service representatives, bank tellers, retail clerks, servers, hospitality workers, flight attendants, healthcare aides, and more.

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teleopti

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The next step is to revisit the ‘out of the ordinary’ events that can adversely impact the efficiency of the contact center such as systems outages, negative comments on social media or news in the press. WFM technology helps to flatten the common spikes in demand. Flatten the spikes. Want to dig deeper into forecasting?

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Not for the weak at heart, only some call center managers have the grace, tenacity, and skills to handle the extreme pressures of the contact center manager’s job. Our 7 tips for great call center management are: Talk to Your Support Agents.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

Most contact center managers agree that there is ample opportunity to improve their workforce management (WFM) solution, their WFM best practices, and most likely both. Intraday management is an area of weakness in most contact center WFM solutions. This is a game changer for contact centers.

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Playvox

APRIL 19, 2022

Just an amped up audience of contact center workforce planning rock stars ready to talk about why customer support capacity planning as we know it must change. I wanted to know how contact center leaders were feeling about their staffing plans. Related Article: 3 Tips for Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

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Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

Contact centers have changed drastically in recent years. The once “in-person” centers dealing with inbound calls have been replaced by global, distributed customer experience teams. In this post, we’ll explore several trends that are driving this growth and are influencing contact center leaders’ decision-making.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)? How does WFO work in the Call Center? But what makes WFO different from WFM?

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