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It's So Hard To Say Goodbye (But It Shouldn't Be)

Contact Center Geek

Call centers learned this many years ago when we created incentive plans based solely on Average Handle Time without a quality metric to counter it. In 2006, a representative at AOL did nearly the same thing Even after a 2004 settlement accusing the company of not properly canceling customers’ accounts.

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Does AI Mean the End for Contact Centres or Simply Higher Levels of Customer Care?

CSM Magazine

This will not only digitize and bring you to the new age, it will really super-charge important metrics like first call resolution and average handle time (which measures the total time to resolution, not just the average time per engagement) which are still weak for ChatBots.

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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

Pierce, O’Driscoll, Coghlan, 2004). This will enable you to address these root causes, which is likely to have a far more dramatic impact on number of calls handled and average handling times than placing those KPIs on agents’ scorecards. That is more humane. Humanity in Empathy and Emotional Intelligence.