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2024 Predictions for Call Center Outsourcing

Outsource Consultants

At Outsource Consultants, we’re committed to providing informed insights, leveraging our experience with over 500 global BPO partners across various industries. Many juggled the challenge of maintaining existing morale while migrating more agents back to the office ; while others simply wanted to ensure their agents stayed engaged.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

Managers who want to meet customer demands will typically ask their agents to work more hours. Increased agent burnout. Working extra overtime hours and handling back-to-back interactions all day long can quickly lead to agent burnout, especially if customers are frustrated about long wait times and take it out on agents.

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Occupancy Rate: The Complete Guide

Fonolo

Agents need time to take a breath and collect their thoughts between calls; If they don't get it, their performance suffers, followed by higher absenteeism and, eventually, agent attrition. Consider an agent who is engaged in call-related work for 45 minutes during a 60 minute period. But, what about the denominator?

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Contact Center 101: A Comprehensive Guide

JustCall

Know How to Measure Performance Not every contact center agent you hire would have the same performance – they would all have their own strengths and weaknesses. You need to set your KPIs in a way that agent performance metrics (like average handle time) align well with business goals and objectives.

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21 Call Center KPIs for Complete Performance Visibility

Babelforce

It differs from handling time because it doesn’t include after call work or time on hold. It’s useful to know, but – time spent talking doesn’t necessarily indicate service quality. #2 2 Average handle time (AHT). The answer is more automation , more agents, or better outsourced overflow capacity. #14