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Occupancy Rate vs Utilization Rate: What’s the Difference?

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From CSat score to Average Handle Time to First Call Resolution Rate , there are plenty of new terminologies that come with working at a contact center. Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things.

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Occupancy Rate vs Utilization Rate: What’s the Difference?

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From CSat score to Average Handle Time to First Call Resolution Rate , there are plenty of new terminologies that come with working at a contact center. Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things.

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Occupancy Rate: The Complete Guide

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The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics Occupancy rate is rarely calculated on an individual level; typically it will be used to determine which times of day, week or year you will need to schedule more agents to handle call volume. This is the same thinking that goes into calculating handle time.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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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. Does your spreadsheet do all that?

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The Role of Real-Time Data in Workforce Management

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The WFM Scheduler The scheduler’s role is to ensure enough people are staffed for the forecasted 30-minute interval volumes to meet the customer demand, while also meeting labor requirements. Best Practice Tip To get real-time insights, your data has to really be arriving in real time.

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What is Call Center Performance Management?

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Performance Management and Customer Experience Call center agents, like retail workers, are on the frontline of customer interactions, and often face frustrated or angry consumers who are upset about a situation and place the blame firmly on the person in front of them.

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How to Calculate Occupancy Rate in a Call Center

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Why 80/20 is the Wrong Service Level for Your Call Center. ‘Occupancy Rate’ is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time). will require more agents, and often ties closely in with ASA and service level calculations.