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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. Preventing Agent Burnout. The Burnout Antidote.

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7 Steps to CSR happiness

teleopti

Tommy Palomäki at Teleopti explains why it pays to focus on CSR’s (Customer Service Representatives) well-being using automated Workforce Management to inspire and motivate staff. Employee attrition can contribute to increased operating costs. Follow these seven steps for a happier, inspired and motivated team!

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Buddying Up – Putting Virtual Employee Assistants at the Heart of Agent Development

TechSee

Deploying the most effective and sustainable VEA would require the integration of multiple technologies, such as interaction guidance, decision support, robotic process automation, workflow optimization and agent career path development. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Gamification. Team-based models.

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Why Simplicity in Contact Centres Matters in an Era of Complexity

CSM Magazine

Here are five tactics to tackle these new complexities from an agent perspective: 1. Replace whiteboards with dashboards – the opportunity to benchmark self-performance is a fundamental part of agent empowerment and it shouldn’t stop just because the majority of agents are working from home.

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Welcome to the new world of self-scheduling for frontline employees

teleopti

Over time, frontline staff too have come to enjoy more control over their working lives through self-service. What is more, CSRs can view their own personal performance KPIs and take part in challenging competitions through gamification, all within a single self-service application. Humanize the workplace.

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Celebrating the Successes and Achievements of Calabrio Customers

Calabrio

Idaho Central continuously improves frontline engagement and performance and encourages agent empowerment—all backed by Calabrio’s integrated workforce management (WFM) platform. More than half of Idaho Central’s agents maintain a perfect attendance record. Runner Up – Bluegrass Cellular.