Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

If too many people are scheduled, you’ll see downtime between interactions, lower occupancy rates, and lower employee productivity for the agents. If not enough people are scheduled, you will often see agent burnout due to minimal breaks between interactions, a higher-than-ideal occupancy rate, and higher overtime costs.

Management 54

Management Contact Center Best practices Agent burnout 54

Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. 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.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Agent burnout Coaching Best practices 77

Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

With more time to invest in agent support, they can better connect and communicate with agents to keep engagement and motivation high. Monitor Performance To Spot Burnout Remember that a key sign of agent burnout is decreased productivity and performance.

Contact Center 78

Contact Center Agent burnout Morale Coaching 78

Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

WFM systems enable organizations to gain insights into such business metrics as the exact number of employees needed to complete a particular job at a given time of the day, week, or month. and scheduling the correct number of agents with the right skills at the right time to handle the expected volume of transactions.

Contact Center 55

Contact Center Workload forecasts Agent burnout Customer retention 55

Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Address all challenges that come up — for customers and agents. Leverage advanced analytics to gauge metrics such as customer retention rates and employee productivity. Agents won’t burn out trying to channel jump to satisfy needs. Remember to keep it focused on key metrics.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Gamification Agent burnout Employee engagement 52

Voxjar

JANUARY 11, 2018

First Call Resolution (FCR) is arguably the most important metric for small and midsize contact centers to track. According to a study done by Customer Relationship Metrics, CSAT will be 35-40% lower when a second call is made for the same issue. Calls that were great can also be added to a library of best practices.

First call resolution 40

First call resolution Contact Center Construction Agent burnout 40