CCNG

MAY 11, 2022

Our industry does a nice job of illustrating the functions agents perform inside a call center or from work-at-home. How can we effectively recruit, train, develop, and retain talent if we don't know who we are hiring or why they're applying for a call center job in the first place? Let's jump right in. ?

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Call centers have become notorious for possessing one of the highest employee attrition rates of any industry. According to Talkdesk , call centers have a turnover rate ranging from 30 to 45 percent. This isn’t entirely surprising: Call centers are stressful work environments. Investing in Agents.

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SQM Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this week's blog, we cover 7 tips to measure and recover from call center agent burnout, one of the call center industry’s biggest problems.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Efficiency is important to every business, but in a call center, it directly impacts your success. Call center managers want to ensure that overall agent performance is meeting service levels, and that agents are working when and where they’re needed. The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 3, 2024

Predicting the future of the call center industry is no easy feat – it’s a complex and ever-evolving landscape. The call center industry was grappling with high turnover and absenteeism, prompting a shift towards prioritizing agent stability and morale.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Traditional call center environments are often busy, fast-paced environments, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Conversations around call center optimization often focus on technology, training, and metrics, but call center workforce optimization also includes the physical elements of your operation.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Take a breather and listen to the story of how Steve Bederman managed to go from call center agent to CEO. One study found that 74% of call center agents are at risk of burnout, one-third of them are at risk of serious burnout.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Even if a call center is properly equipped for remote work, it’s more difficult for agents to get facetime with management when issues arise simply because they can’t just walk over to their desk and ask for help. We’ve put together our top 5 best practices for training remote agents to help you out. Virtual workshops.

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Zappix

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As call centers continue to evolve, the role of digital tools in optimizing agent interactions has become increasingly crucial. Let’s explore how these tools benefit agents and customers, improving outcomes and elevating satisfaction.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

Knowing where you stand with your customers and proving that value to stakeholders requires carefully crafted call center reporting that directly aligns with your organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. What is a call center report?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Though they vary from person to person, there are a few universal pros and cons to working in a contact center environment that all agents tend to agree on. The best way for call center managers to combat the cons is to identify what they are and what you can do to help your agents work through them. Agent burnout.

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TechSee

MAY 18, 2022

In today’s age of customer-centric service, call centers must deliver quick answers, short hold times, and the ability to speak to a live representative on demand. How can Management ensure their call centers are up to par? They can either staff up significantly or improve their call center occupancy.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

If creating a successful call center is proving challenging, our team has 40+ years of experience managing call centers and creating successful cultures. How your team communicates, shares information, and collaborates makes up a big part of your call center culture. Communication. Your customer focus.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When you factor in that call centers typically spend $8800 on hiring and training new agent, attrition can cost a 100-agent contact center about $325,600 per year. So, let’s dive into the top five causes of agent burnout and look into what you can do to combat them.

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

As call center leaders, we know the list of things to manage on the floor is endless. Behind hold times and high call volumes, management must ensure every agent is trained, every shift is covered, and every customer is satisfied. One vital aspect of call center efficiency is call center workforce management (WFM).

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Despite the proliferation of new support channels and technology, agent turnover remains the number one problem for contact centers. It’s not a problem to be ignored: agent burnout can diminish call center morale and negatively impact customer support KPIs like CSAT and NPS. Create Really Good Help Content.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 1, 2019

Call centers are high-pressure, stressful environments. Agents are expected to deal with demanding customers, be knowledgeable about many products and services, adhere to changing compliance regulations, all while being continuously monitored and timed. These enabling technologies will also be discussed in Part 2.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

This is a good place to start for any agent satisfaction survey. While you may have a sense of the daily operations in your call center, understanding the experience from your agents’ perspective can help you identify the highlights of their job, as well as areas for improvement. Work-life balance.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Call centers need all their parts in order to run smoothly. Absenteeism, otherwise known as absence rate, is arguably one of the most overlooked call center metrics. This percentage figure reveals the amount of unapproved or unplanned time agents spend away from their work. First call resolution (FCR).

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2022

The more freedom agents have, the more empowered they’ll be to resolve calls without transferring. Keep all the information agents need in one place. From training resources to product guides and tech tutorials, ensure all the information your agents need to access at a moment’s notice lives in an easily accessible online hub.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM).

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Skybridge

JUNE 10, 2020

For brands that have always used onsite call centers to care for their customers – and for the agents who worked onsite – this has been a particularly challenging time. When the pandemic hit, most North American companies did everything in their power to transition to remote call centers. It wasn’t easy.

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JustCall

MARCH 6, 2023

Call Center Productivity and Metrics Call center metrics are crucial to understand and measure performance. They reveal agent strengths and weaknesses, as well as customer satisfaction, and whether or not you have the right people and technology in place. What is Call Center Occupancy?

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Voiptime

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Job burnout has been a common problem for many years across industries. Switching to remote work made it more serious than ever. What are its main symptoms and how to prevent it from happening? Let’s take a close look at it in our new article.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Remote call center employees feel they can be more flexible, productive, and satisfied while working from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Xaqt

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday the Center for Disease Control (CDC) sounded the alarm bell that the spread of Coronavirus in the U.S. While no one knows what the actual impact of the virus will be, we expect that call centers across several industries along with public sector service agencies will be adversely impacted.

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CCNG

MAY 4, 2022

It's the pressure of working with demanding customers every day in a highly structured environment which makes agent burnout a real thing. Given this information, what can contact centers do to help reduce agent churn and keep agents employed? And, according to Forbes via the U.S.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

We’re here to break down this myth and demonstrate the difference between Occupancy Rate and Utilization Rate, so you can use both key performance indicators (KPIs) to benefit your contact center. Why is Occupancy Rate so Important in the Call Center? Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 17, 2018

In a recent article , Steve Kraus addresses a common, but major, problem in the call center industry: agent attrition. Customers are often frustrated and angry by the time they reach a call center agent, which means the agents should be upbeat with a fresh mind to engage the customer and make them happy.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2021

What does top-tier customer service look like in your call center? How should a customer feel before they get connected to an agent, during their call, and after? and “thank you for your patience”, show that your agent is actively listening and respectful of a customer’s time and opinion.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To keep up, let’s take a look at a few call center efficiency tips to help you improve your call center performance to keep customers happy. Tip #1: Know your Agents and Encourage Autonomy. Of course, some idle time is necessary to prevent agent burnout. Don’t let all downtime be wasted time.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

We’re here to break down this myth and demonstrate the difference between Occupancy Rate and Utilization Rate, so you can use both key performance indicators (KPIs) to benefit your contact center. Why is Occupancy Rate so Important in the Call Center? Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

And, why investing in the contact center can catapult your business forward. How you manage your contact center and develop your agents has a direct impact on customer outcomes and your bottom line. It’s time to break down your call center management by the numbers to see how you’re adding value each day.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

When it comes to demystifying call center metrics, ‘occupancy rate’ shouldn’t be forgotten. Occupancy rate is basically a measure of how “busy” call center agents are when they are at work. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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