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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

Executive Guide to 6 Call Center Metrics What is Workforce Management in a Call Center? Simply put, workforce management is the strategic discipline of carefully deploying your resources, so you hit your service level targets while keeping costs in check. higher adherence rate than those without.

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CX Moneyball: Running the Numbers to Cover Your Bases

BlueOcean

Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. That’s what we’re talking about here – the role of repetitions and preparing for the possibilities in contact center management.

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

The contact center workforce was already going remote. The call center industry was beyond the experimental phase of work-from-home before COVID-19 hit. Numerous companies had adopted it as their sole workforce model, among them many SMBs that found in remote agents a flexible, low-overhead workforce option.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Workforce management for contact centers is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost.

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A Complete Guide to Workforce Management in the Call Center

Balto

Managing your call center’s workforce effectively is essential to keep both customers and agents satisfied. The process can be pretty complex when you take into account your agents’ skills and break times, as well as the different channels you offer support through and peak times. How productive are they?

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Workforce Planning: How it Establishes Gold Standard Service

Playvox

Forecasts must be updated regularly to account for actual volume trends, a task made easier and more accurate by smart workforce management software. Not enough scheduled agents will negatively impact service levels, while overstaffing is bad for the budget. What is the Goal of Workforce Planning? Agent Scheduling.