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How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It)

Playvox

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. What Causes Agent Burnout? Preventing Agent Burnout.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily.