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Beware… Five Signals of Customer Care Burnout!

Contact Center Pipeline

Are your contact center agents increasingly late for work or calling in sick? Are quality and productivity declining while error rates and customer complaints escalate? If this is happening, your culprit may be BURNOUT. Burnout is defined as “a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion […].

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

Skybridge

Skybridge Americas is one of very few customer care call centers that had invested early and robustly in the technology, infrastructure, and talent necessary to run large, geographically dispersed at-home agent teams. All customer care agents need to know they’re supported by their employer and their coworkers.

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How to Develop a Customer Service Strategy for Your Contact Center

Fonolo

According to research from Khoros, 86% of clients say they’re more likely to turn into lifetime brand advocates if they receive exceptional customer care. The Secret Sauce for Increasing Customer Happiness. Develop a strong customer care strategy. Start by creating a customer care vision and set goals.

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HOW TO PREVENT AGENT APATHY

CCNG

Leaders need to empower their agents with the right resources and provide them with strategies to handle emotionally draining tasks. Moreover, striving for efficiency without compromising customer service is even more important; good customer service should never come at the cost of agent burnout.

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How to Manage and Inspire Call Center Agents Working From Home

JustCall

Considering the above-mentioned facts, work from home call centers must create a sound internal process that makes it easier for them to manage and encourage their work from home call center agents who are working from home. Let us look at some of the benefits of work from home customer care department. Prevent Agent Burnout.

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9 Signs You’re a Customer Service Expert

Fonolo

The customer service profession is known for high turnover rates and agent burnout, however, some professionals greatly excel in this line of work, and show tremendous aptitude for delivering excellent customer care.

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Advantages & Best Practices for Managing Callbacks in Contact Centers

NobelBiz

In many cases, the simple trick of implementing a callback system can take the pressure off the customer care department, eliminating the main cause of stress for both the agents and the clients. This can help reduce the administrative burden on agents and allow them to focus on handling customer requests.