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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. It starts with a foundation made up of the right technologies and best practices.

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How to help contact center agents avoid burnout

Toister Performance Solutions

Burnout is defined by the American Psychological Association as "physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others." That study found 74 percent of contact center agents were at risk of burnout. Wait, accountability?!

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

But the gap between how managers view feedback and how employees see it simply isn’t good for agent morale and mindset. To keep engagement up, feedback should be focused on coaching rather than micromanaging. Remember that understanding their role and goals was the most important factor in agent engagement.

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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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Why Your Contact Center Needs A Call Avoidance Policy

Playvox

While to the agent, it’s just handling another customer interaction, they are the “face” of the company and take the brunt of the rage from the customer. When customers are in a rage, it can be incredibly difficult to defuse the situation, creating stress and burnout for your agents. Examples Of Interaction Avoidance.

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How to Create a Call Center Performance Report

Fonolo

A high first contact resolution (also known as first call resolution ) means your agents are knowledgeable and highly effective in their work. On the other side of the spectrum, a low percentage means that there is room for coaching and training to improve your agents’ product and service knowledge.

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Unveiling the Next Era of Customer Experience: JustCall Takes the Stage at CCW in Las Vegas

JustCall

The focus this year will largely be around the themes of digital transformation and innovation, the growing role of Generative AI and emerging tech, and top industry insights as well as best practices. With 100+ phone system integrations, JustCall ends agent burnout and initiates smarter workflows.