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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

Solutions include reducing agent-assisted volume, maximizing the capacity you already have, and automating processes in order to relieve agent burdens. What happens when you don’t have enough contact center agents? When you have an agent shortage, it causes significant CX, operational, morale, and cost issues.

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Call Center Occupancy Vs Utilization: Their Importance and their Differences 

JustCall

Some of them are: Call arrival rate, for frequency of inbound calls. Call abandonment rate, which shows how many customers hang up before speaking with an agent. Average handling time, to indicate how long an agent takes to complete a customer call. Any higher, and agents will be burnt out over time.

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21 Call Center KPIs for Complete Performance Visibility

Babelforce

But going too far will worsen the customer experience. #3 3 Call abandonment rate. Callers tend to abandon the queue when they have to wait for too long. Keep track of how often this happens by measuring your call abandonment rate – that’s the percentage of callers who quit while waiting.