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Obvious Contact Center Agent Burnout Problem Revealed

CX Global Media

If you stop and think about contact center agent burnout and turnover problems, why have you not considered musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)? Have you considered MSD as a contact center agent burnout cause? This agent burnout problem is often unreported. Agents feel more valued.

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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. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all.

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Attrition Turnover has long been an issue in contact centers.

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Why Your Contact Center Needs A Call Avoidance Policy

Playvox

Call avoidance is a common issue in contact centers and must be dealt with to ensure a positive experience for your customers. But agents can quickly become frustrated and overwhelmed when dealing with irate customers and high contact volumes, leading them to avoid interactions. Examples Of Interaction Avoidance.

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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

Playvox

Much of a team leader’s time is taken away from their key role of providing coaching and development to their people when they have to get involved in manual, immediate, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks like leave approval and shift swaps. Absence requests – Let agents self-serve for all types of leave requests.

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. The beauty of cloud-first contact centre solutions is they make light work of scaling up and down as your business changes.

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The Ultimate 5-step Detox Programme for Contact Centre Health

CSM Magazine

Magnus Geverts shares his top tips for beating agent burnout—and the competition—in 2023. Great news for businesses that rely on the festive season to tide them over during the leaner months but extremely stressful for agents in contact centres.