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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. What Causes Agent Burnout? Preventing Agent Burnout.

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today? About the Author Graeme Meikle is a Senior Workforce Management Consultant at Calabrio.

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How to Control Call Avoidance and Interaction Avoidance

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When some agents avoid working with customers, that puts pressure on other team members to pick up the slack. This can lead to burnout, creating additional increases in agent stress that lead to high call-outs or high attrition rates. What To Do if Contact Center Agents Are Participating in Interaction Avoidance.

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

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.

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What is Call Center Performance Management?

Talkdesk

What’s more, scaling up your team requires more workforce management resources directed toward even more performance and quality management personnel. Contact center agents may also take issue with the performance metrics being used to assess them.