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How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It)

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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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Bringing Automation to Customer Service – 5 Chatbot Examples for Any Industry

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By introducing a chatbot, organizations are now expanding customer service availability, cutting costs, increasing team efficiency, so much more. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the best chatbot examples across industries, revealing how organizations are using automation and the benefits each brings. Reducing repetitive work.

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Who Is Today's Call Center Agent?

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Our industry does a nice job of illustrating the functions agents perform inside a call center or from work-at-home. With our industry's continued frenetic growth and recent staffing shortages, we have become so fixated on headcount that we often end up treating the hiring and training process as a production assembly line.

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Occupancy Rate vs Utilization Rate: What’s the Difference?

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All folks new to the contact center world have many steep learning curves to overcome—a big one is picking up on industry jargon. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. For example, Occupancy Rates can help predict agent burnout and satisfaction at work. Eventually, agents will quit.

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Occupancy Rate vs Utilization Rate: What’s the Difference?

Fonolo

All folks new to the contact center world have many steep learning curves to overcome—a big one is picking up on industry jargon. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. For example, Occupancy Rates can help predict agent burnout and satisfaction at work. Eventually, agents will quit.

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Occupancy Rate: The Complete Guide

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The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics Occupancy rate is rarely calculated on an individual level; typically it will be used to determine which times of day, week or year you will need to schedule more agents to handle call volume. Lowering your target service level means fewer agents are needed, which raises occupancy.

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How Contact Centers Can Better Report Agent Efficiency

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A positive experience with a contact center agent can serve as the nudge customers need to make a purchase, while a frustrating conversation can deter existing customers and put off new customers entirely. Across industries, customer service plays a vital role in financial success.