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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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Contact Center Agent Burnout – Part 2, Causes and Remedies

Noble Systems

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. In addition, you may be risking your reputation and impeding the quality of customer service, which can lead to plummeting customer satisfaction.

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Improving Customer Service in BPOs with Multi-Tenant Contact Center Software

Hodusoft

Improving Customer Service in BPOs with Multi-Tenant Contact Center Software Noted management guru Peter F. It isn’t surprising to see that many small, medium, and large businesses outsource their customer service to BPOs. Just imagine you are a business owner who is considering outsourcing customer service.

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Your All-in-One Guide to Call Center Workforce Optimization

Fonolo

5 Tips to Prevent Call Center Agent Burnout Before it Begins. Agent onboarding and training. Keeping agents interested in their work can be a challenge, but with the right onboarding and training strategies, they’ll constantly be learning new information. Agent and customer interactions.

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Unhappy Customer Support Agents Mean Unhappy Customers

Mindtouch

Regardless of the reason, an unhappy group of support agents can make for unhappy customers and seriously impact customer experience KPIs. Wherever you find agent burnout, dissatisfied customers are not far away. What makes customer support agents unhappy? Inadequate tools and resources.

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A Common-Sense Approach to Employee Engagement

CSM Magazine

One of the positives to come out of the pandemic is that it made every customer service department think more about the wellbeing of employees than ever before. It’s a welcome shift because for most contact centre managers, agent stress is the biggest labour issue on their minds and it’s diminishing the customer experience (CX).

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

In the contact centre, where customers may be anxious, angry or upset, the effect often throws agents off course, impacting their mood, amplifying disengagement, and increasing AHT. While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences.