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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? The Consequences of Agent Burnout.

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Contact Center Agent Burnout – Part 2, Causes and Remedies

Noble Systems

So, let’s dive into the top five causes of agent burnout and look into what you can do to combat them. Overworking agents. Advanced solutions offer post call and real-time speech analytics to provide feedback, assist agents with calls, identify areas for improvement and give kudos to top performers. Gamification.

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What Is Call Center Burnout? 8 Ways to Prevent & Overcome It

JustCall

As a sales or customer support manager, you’ve likely noticed some agents seem disengaged, burned out, or stressed. Call center agent burnout is a real problem, and the job demands can take a toll on even the most resilient employees. Empower agents with autonomy 4. Provide ongoing training and feedback 7.

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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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Top Techniques for Coaching Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic

Couple that with a potentially volatile economy and it's clear that organizations must invest in innovative approaches if they want employees who are engaged and informed enough to significantly improve the customer experience and eliminate the high costs associated with agent attrition. How proper coaching can reduce agent burnout.

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The Rising Risk of Call Center Agent Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

Skybridge

More than anything else, these meetings allow you to convey your care about each member of your team, to ask how they’re doing, to empathize with their concerns, and to act on their feedback. Keep Building Skills with Training, Practice, and Coaching. Layer on additional group videoconference opportunities.

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

While sometimes interaction avoidance truly is an agent trying to get out of work, in many other instances, it’s a way to cope with feeling overwhelmed by customer mistreatment or aggression. It also could be a sign that the agents are overworked. A big contributor to this burnout and the resulting avoidance is customer behavior.