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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

While sometimes interaction avoidance truly is an agent trying to get out of work, in many other instances, it’s a way to cope with feeling overwhelmed by customer mistreatment or aggression. It also could be a sign that the agents are overworked. A big contributor to this burnout and the resulting avoidance is customer behavior.

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2024 Predictions for Call Center Outsourcing

Outsource Consultants

Grading our 2023 BPO Industry Predictions Prediction: Agent Morale is 2023’s Top Priority In late 2022, we heard from new clients that a key concern for 2023 was partnering with BPO vendors adept at managing rising attrition rates. This simplicity can help boost voter participation, particularly among younger demographics.

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How to reduce agent burnout in your contact center

Babelforce

It contributes to the industry’s notoriously high agent attrition rates, which averaged around 38% in 2022. When questioned, 62% of call center agents identified burnout as one of their top workplace challenges. It’s estimated that the cost of replacing a single agent is anywhere between $5,000 to $7,500.

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19 Workforce Optimization Statistics to Steer You Toward a Better Customer Experience: Give Your Agents What They Really Want and They’ll Return the Favor

SharpenCX

feedback, access to analytics, and clear expectations) they need to do outstanding work. Nearly 75% of contact center leaders say a key goal of WFO is to improve the customer experience, while 67% said another key goal is to improve the agent experience. A lack of visibility into goals, metrics, and progress fuels agent burnout.

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Top Techniques for Coaching Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic

Traditional methods of agent coaching lack the ability to automatically analyze the unstructured data inside support interactions to identify opportunities for improvement and reward strong performance. The importance of efficiency when onboarding and training agents. How proper coaching can reduce agent burnout.

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Creating a Successful Call Center Culture

Global Response

Instead, create a culture of transparent communication, open dialogue and honest feedback—between and within employees and management. Lead by example and be open and honest about company decisions and foster a culture where employees feel open to dialogue and feedback. What role does communication play in call center culture?

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Is the Contact Center a Good Career? Tenured Agents Say Yes

Balto

It’s constant practice and instant feedback as you work on your social skills.” – Lior Torenberg, Head of the Conversation Excellence Lab Let’s also bust the myths around introverts and sales. If agents received 0 pieces of feedback from their peers, their peer respect was reported as 3.95/5. 2022, March 29).