Outsource Consultants
JANUARY 3, 2024
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.
TechSee
MAY 4, 2021
Physical contact centers were shut down, with agents hastily transitioned to a work from home (WFH) model and field service crews immobilized, yet calls from customers for assistance skyrocketed. Another survey corroborated these findings, with just under half (45%) of U.S. Agent Burnout. WFH employees in the U.S
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Babelforce
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
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.
Balto
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
But in reality, we found that while many people leave within their first year, a majority of tenured agents spend longer in the contact center than they originally planned — and they’re happy to have done so. In our survey, 46.7% In our survey, we found that 62.96% of tenured agents had a mentor at work.
SharpenCX
JUNE 3, 2020
Of those surveyed, the biggest percentage of contact centers only make schedule revisions or offer shift bidding once per quarter. A lack of visibility into goals, metrics, and progress fuels agent burnout. Agents who sit at severe risk for burnout are 63% less likely to have daily metrics on display in their office.
Playvox
APRIL 4, 2023
The study also revealed that customers are turning to digital channels to complain more often than phone calls, with 32% of customers surveyed sharing their complaints on social media. In 2022, the average agent turnover rate at all contact centers was 24% and climbed as high as 30% for large customer service centers.
Fonolo
JANUARY 25, 2022
Although it sounds technical, WFO is just a fancy way of speaking to the management of all things call center-related in a way that boosts agent productivity and overall call center performance—however, there is a lot involved in developing a successful WFO strategy, and we have you covered with all the details. Agent onboarding and training.
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