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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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Service Level – Are You Measuring it the Wrong Way?

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Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. Organizations are missing opportunities to view this metric differently to manage customer service delivery and its associated costs more effectively.

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SLAs For Today’s Contact Center

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If you’re in the contact center industry, 80/20 service levels are likely nothing new. You may have used 80/20 service levels in your operations! Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses. Is 80/20 Right for My Contact Center?

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Why is Call Abandonment Still a Thing?

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If you take a tech tool like ChatGPT and ask it about call abandonment in the contact center, the AI-powered bot will give you an earful about one of the most persistent problems in the customer service industry. So, how do you reduce abandonment rates in today’s contact center?

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Contact Centers Focusing Less on 80/20 Service Level

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In the wide world of call center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers. Even more astonishing is that most call centers would name the same target value for that metric: the magical “80/20”. Definitions. Thus, an “80/20?

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Queue Management Best Practices for Contact Centers

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PRWeb reports that 32% of customers are not willing to wait on hold at all. And 69% of customers say they’ve abandoned a brand after a single bad customer service experience. In this blog, we’ll explore the best practices for call center queue management. These numbers are alarming.