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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. SQM research shows that 63% of the agents experience a high burnout rate.

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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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AI Innovations That Support (Not Replace) Humans in Customer Experience — Stacy Sherman

Vistio

High training costs, high attrition, agent burnout, and outdated systems get in the way of empowering agents to provide excellent customer service. So, how best to fix these issues to boost agent productivity and morale?

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Telltale Signs: How to Identify Call Center Agent Burnout

Fonolo

Agents are required to deal with challenging, frustrated customers, with the knowledge that the calls (and their performance) are being monitored and timed. News Careers report found that customer service representatives suffer from below-average job flexibility. On top of this, a U.S.

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5 Ways to Avoid Agent Burnout Through Customer Self-Service

Mindtouch

Despite the proliferation of new support channels and technology, agent turnover remains the number one problem for contact centers. It’s not a problem to be ignored: agent burnout can diminish call center morale and negatively impact customer support KPIs like CSAT and NPS.

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HOW TO PREVENT AGENT APATHY

CCNG

As soon as an agent starts “just going through the motions” rather than engaging with customers, interaction quality plummets—and so do customer satisfaction scores. You know that preventing these types of scenarios is key to keeping morale high and productivity consistent—but how?

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2024 Predictions for Call Center Outsourcing

Outsource Consultants

Grading our 2023 BPO Industry Predictions Prediction: Agent Morale is 2023’s Top Priority In late 2022, we heard from new clients that a key concern for 2023 was partnering with BPO vendors adept at managing rising attrition rates. This change in focus led clients to make decisions increasingly based on agent satisfaction levels.