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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

Nobody escaped the long lines and endless waiting times. The Temkin Group’s 2017 Customer Experience study showed a severe decline in customer experience ratings from 2015 to 2016. But the number of companies that scored ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ increased from 18% in 2016 to 38% in 2017 – the highest rating ever.

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Is Chat Ready to Grow Up?

Toister Performance Solutions

percent in 2016 to 83.54 Comm100's Live Chat Benchmark Report 2018 showed a similar decline from 84.06 Two major pain points are average wait times and average chat length, both of which I experienced in my chat with the cable company. A chatbot could have handled the same issue with no wait time and no lag.

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4 Call Center Reports Worth Your Time

Fonolo

Key findings: “Wait time before reaching a live agent” is the most frequent source of customer complaints. in 2016 to 5.3% The top reason queuing is disliked, “Not knowing how much longer you’ll have to wait”. Understanding Industry Benchmarks. Web chat showed strong growth rising from 3.2% in 2015 to 4.5%

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How to Improve Customer Experience Using Employee Feedback

ProProfs Blog

A figure that stresses the importance of employee engagement and feedback in current times – the Employee Engagement Benchmark study conducted by Tempkin Group in 2016 , found that. times as many engaged employees as compared to those in customer experience laggards. Customer Experience leaders have 1.5

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How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

Call Experts

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. Customer Service benchmarks show the importance of a great procedure! Your customers, old and new, will experience exceptional service and shorter wait times. In 2019, Salesforce forecasts a "sustained and solid U.S. Free your Phone!

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How Call Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

Call Experts

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. Customer Service benchmarks show the importance of a great procedure! Your customers, old and new, will experience exceptional service and shorter wait times. In 2019, Salesforce forecasts a "sustained and solid U.S. Free your Phone!

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Make or Break: The Customer Experience Imperative for Midsize Businesses

Avaya

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2016 Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales have already accounted for more than $3 Billion in “desktop spending”—aka, e-commerce. Contact centers may also want to measure some of the more traditional indicators such as number of interactions handled, number of first contact resolutions, wait time, etc.