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How to Improve Call Center Agent Productivity

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As a call center, you have many metrics and KPIs available to measure agent productivity. Here are a few: Call abandonment rate. Call abandonment occurs when a customer hangs up before an agent answers the phone. For example, if 20 calls to a contact center out of 200 are hang-ups, the abandonment rate is 10%.

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3 Reasons Your Call Center is Missing Benchmarks

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Abandonment rate measures the number of callers that hang up before an agent picks up the phone. Long wait time is the most common reason for call abandonment. Call center managers might consider investing in visual IVR and hiring more agents to lower abandonment rates. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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What is a call center dashboard and what does it do?

NobelBiz

Missed Calls: Tracking missed calls enables proactive measures to minimize customer frustration and loss of potential business. Abandoned Calls: Identifying trends in abandoned calls allows for adjustments in staffing and workflow to reduce abandonment rates.

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3 Tips to Reduce Cost Per Contact in the Call Center

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Use metric-tracking software to determine if your average handle time is increasing, first call resolution is falling, abandoned call rates are rising, or customer satisfaction survey results are going down. TIP: It can be helpful to create sub-categories for cost per contact by department.

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Call Center Metrics & KPIs to Measure Agent Performance

Balto

The average call abandonment rate (ACAR) indicates the number of customers that abandon calls if they wait on hold for too long. When calculating the ACAR, it’s important to neglect calls that were abandoned in the first few seconds since these calls are mostly made by customers by accident.

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Guide to Interpreting Call Center Analytics

Fonolo

This metric can also be used to identify trends in call volume, such as an increase in call volume during a particular time of year. Call centers typically experience a significant increase in call volume during the holiday season, for example, as customers call for help with purchases and returns.

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Emojis At the Contact Center? Why Not?

Monet Software

Perhaps average handle time (AHT) is the toughest challenge, or cutting down on abandoned calls. Let’s stick with average handle time as an example. Every call with an acceptable AHT earns a happy face. Do they have a place at the contact center? Surprisingly, the answer is yes.