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Contact Center 101: A Comprehensive Guide

JustCall

This is the kind of contact center that businesses prefer the most. However, if your business only needs to plan marketing campaigns using contact centers, then an outbound mode would be more suitable. If you wish to deploy marketing campaigns, select the outbound contact center.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily.

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Finding the Balance with Call Center Efficiency: 5 Tips for Improving Efficiency and Empowering your Agents

SharpenCX

And apart from the cost to your operations, this paid downtime is detrimental to contact center quality and productivity. Of course, some idle time is necessary to prevent agent burnout. When we talk about idle time, we’re not talking about bathroom breaks, minutes of rest and mindfulness, or your agent’s lunch hour.