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Everything You Need to Know About Adherence Reporting in the Call Center

Fonolo

While efficiency can be difficult to quantify, adherence reporting can help you gain insights on the effectiveness of your team’s daily activities. Adherence is the biggest factor in achieving ROI from a workforce management perspective. What is schedule adherence? Low adherence can be costly to your bottom line.

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Contact Center Agent Burnout – Part 1, Warning Signs

Noble Systems

This can impair an agent’s ability to retain information, problem solve or make decisions. Disengaged agents lose interest in their jobs. They might become less active in meetings, no longer interested in offering input, content just to sit back and listen. Apathy and isolation. They also often pull back from their colleagues.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. Does your spreadsheet do all that?

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Occupancy Rate: The Complete Guide

Fonolo

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. Another danger is confusing occupancy with schedule adherence.

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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

Playvox

Ensuring that employees can be a part of managing their schedule has big benefits. Improved Efficiency Getting your staffing levels right and creating a balanced workload across all of your customer service channels is crucial. These include breaks and other activities, such as team meetings and training.

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What is Call Center Performance Management?

Talkdesk

Performance Management and Customer Experience Call center agents, like retail workers, are on the frontline of customer interactions, and often face frustrated or angry consumers who are upset about a situation and place the blame firmly on the person in front of them.

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How to Calculate Occupancy Rate in a Call Center

Fonolo

Why 80/20 is the Wrong Service Level for Your Call Center. ‘Occupancy Rate’ is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time). It’s rarely calculated on an individual level; typically it will be looked to determine which times of day, week, year etc.