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The Manager’s Guide to Call Center Service Levels

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In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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New Survey on Service Level: 80/20 Is Still Going Strong

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When it comes to metrics for tracking call center performance, service level is the undeniable king of the hill. It’s a measure of how quickly calls are answered by agents. The most typical target is “80/20” which means 80% of calls are answered within 20 seconds. Cool Scatter Plot of Service Levels!

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8 Contact Center KPIs Add to your Management Tool Box

SharpenCX

Looking into the quality and efficiency of agent’s calls gives you a lot of helpful data, so you know where to improve performance. Service level. Service level is a fundamental metric. Service level helps you dissect the details of your call center. You can also call these one-touch cases.

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Why an 80/20 Service Level is Wrong for Your Call Center

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In the world of contact center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. It gives the industry a universally understood way to talk about how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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Call Center Metrics & KPIs to Measure Agent Performance

Balto

Most call centers split call volume into calls handled by automated systems and calls handled by agents. Average Call Abandonment Rate. The average call abandonment rate (ACAR) indicates the number of customers that abandon calls if they wait on hold for too long.

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How to Create a Call Center Performance Report

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Here are some examples of how raw data can inform reporting: Hold time is an analytic that informs reporting on abandonment rates and service level. Call length is an analytic that informs reporting on First Contact Resolution (FCR). Number of calls is an analytic that informs reporting on agent occupancy rate.

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KPI 101: Call Center Workforce Management Metrics

Global Response

Basic KPIs There are many KPIs, but some of the most commonly used customer service metrics follow. Abandon rate. The inverse of the answer rate. Abandon rate = calls abandoned ÷ (calls abandoned + calls answered). Service level (SLA) sets benchmarks for future performance.