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DMG Consulting Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report

DMG Consulting

Agent empowerment is a growing area of focus for contact center leaders, and WFM vendors are helping to address these needs by delivering expanded self-service capabilities via enhanced mobile apps. WFM vendors are also looking for creative ways to motivate agents via gamification to self-schedule hard-to-fill shifts and hours.

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Balto Elevates the Agent Experience in the Contact Center with New Suite of Features

Balto

Reaffirms commitment to agent empowerment for retention and growth in the contact center. Selected agents can add their voice to the playbook, test new checklist items, and snooze or minimize prompts. Gamification. Gamification drives agents to want to achieve through the spirit of competition.

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A lifetime of lessons learned, with Steve Bederman | First Contact: Stories of the Call Center

NobelBiz

Going into 2021, we can foresee a few things that will remain in plain focus: a seamless customer journey, personalized customer experiences, relationship and agent empowerment. Technology plays a key part in adopting strategies for employee engagement and a seamless employee – agent experience.

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5 Contact Center Technology Trends That Will Define 2022

3CLogic

As technology continues to rapidly develop, contact centers will need to revisit the tools they use in order to keep up. This leads right into another top trend from 2021: a move toward leveraging analytics to promote agent empowerment. 5 Contact Center Technology Trends To Expect In The Coming Year.

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AI-Enabled WFM Promotes Efficiency and Flexibility

DMG Consulting

percent of survey participants, making them the second-highest-ranked contact center technology and application investment for the year. AI-based forecasting algorithms and simulations leverage a variety of AI technologies and proprietary models developed by WFM vendors to provide more accurate forecasts. percent and 50.0

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

Playvox

It starts with a foundation made up of the right technologies and best practices. Other factors agents cite for burnout are: Lack of training Lack of a career path Frustrating technology tools. Preventing Agent Burnout. Most fundamentally you need to promote a culture of agent empowerment. Getting Started.

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

TechSee

With this in mind, Gartner’s “ How CEC Agents Could Benefit From Having a Digital Buddy ,” recommends that contact centers invest in technology strategies that not only drive operational performance, but that boost agent engagement and satisfaction. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Gamification.