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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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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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 5, 2021

For example, if technology is limited and doesn’t allow for group meetings or video conferencing, the transition to online training will be very bumpy. We’ve put together our top 5 best practices for training remote agents to help you out. 15 Powerful Call Center Training Methods. Virtual workshops.

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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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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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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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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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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. Overworking agents.

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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. Disengaged agents lose interest in their jobs. Apathy and isolation.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 25, 2022

From organizing call center agents to employing the right technology and developing a customer experience strategy, there are plenty of moving pieces in the successful operation of a contact center. Getting all those nuts and bolts to run in perfect harmony is often referred to as call center workforce optimization (WFO).

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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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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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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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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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Balto

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many things you can do to make your call center more productive, like motivating your agents, equipping them with technological solutions, and implementing self-service options. What Is Call Center Productivity? How to Calculate and Measure Call Center Agent Productivity.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 16, 2023

Team Remote touts the cost savings, flexibility, and improved quality of life that comes from having agents work remotely. Here’s some good news for Team Remote: your agents report having better bosses. In early 2023, I launched a study on contact center agent burnout. This was an accidental discovery.

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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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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? Team meetings. Will Knowing These Stats Benefit My Contact Center?

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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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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services. Inefficiencies in the traditional Call Center Model . In a traditional call center, agents are occupied only up to 60% of their shift time , a number known as agent utilization rate. Agent Burnout.

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Dialer 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A call center is currently one the most hectic and exhausting working environment. With this scenario of fatigue, extreme or burnout, are not uncommon. Whereas, reps working in call center that is expecting fast issue solve of their customer. They have to meet with enhanced customer expectations.

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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? Team meetings. Will Knowing These Stats Benefit My Contact Center?

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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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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 15, 2022

Automotive factory lines have now nearly halted due to shortages of semiconductors and other parts, as the industry was left unprepared to meet demand. The Impact on Contact Centers. Call times can also be expected to increase for these agents, as they search databases or company notes to track down answers to less generic questions.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Are you ready to meet them? Download Now: See what Frost & Sullivan marked as the most important trends impacting contact centers. 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 #4: Omnichannel Everything.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Good leaders know that simply having agents in their seats doesn’t make for standout customer experiences. To meet the sky-high expectations of today’s customers, agents need to be engaged at work. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily. Because modern WFM is shifting.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In our on-going effort to demystify 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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Quality Contact Solutions

DECEMBER 31, 1969

There are lots of ways to measure your call center staff utilization. We all want our agents busy, but not too busy, right? Staff utilization, also referred to as agent utilization is simply the percentage of time an agent is spent handling customer interactions. Staff utilization is not just calling, is it?

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Talkdesk

APRIL 29, 2016

In love and call center software, breaking up is hard to do. In a call center solution, this can manifest in many ways, including low reliability, lack of advanced features and inflexible settings. Businesses may keep trying and trying to make it work with their inadequate call center software.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Anecdotally, even the promise of substantially higher contact center agent salaries isn’t resulting in the number of qualified hires call centers need to fully staff up. With the holiday rush looming, an agent shortage could be detrimental to business. Increased agent burnout.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Providing a seamless customer experience is a pressing challenge that many contact centers are still struggling with. Changing customer expectations and changing market dynamics have made it difficult for contact centers to meet customer needs. With AI, you’ll be able to reduce response times and streamline your workflows.

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