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Enabling a Mobile Contact Center Workforce with Aspect® Workforce Optimization™ Version 20

Aspect

There is anecdotal evidence that employee s perform better at home, but performance comes in all shapes and sizes including average handle time, a verage after call work time, customer satisfaction, quality score, s ilence time, a dherence, absenteeism and many others.

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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. Is WFM the Fountain of Youth?

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Tortoise or Hare – Which One Best Describes Your Contact Center?

CSM Magazine

Occupancy – it’s good to know how many of your resources are being used at any one time but it’s even better to keep some agents in ‘reserve’ to handle random contact arrival patterns and maintain service levels. Running a series of ‘what if’ scenarios helps to.

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Driving Holistic Customer Engagement Excellence

Verint

Attendees hosted sessions and exchanged best practices on topics including voice of the customer, desktop and process analytics, automation/robotics, employee engagement, quality management, back-office and branch operations, compliance recording and workforce management.

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Three Simple Ways to Show Your Customers Some Love

Verint

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. In a new article for Contact Center Pipeline , I discuss some simple, practical ways that organizations can demonstrate to their customers that they matter. Have you thought about that before?

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Add Mindfulness to Your Contact Center WFO and IVR Strategies

Verint

You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.

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2023 Contact Center Report: How Contact Center Leaders Are Improving Efficiency and Doing More With “Less”

Balto

They did, however, care more about dials per week and average handle time. The metrics that our respondents looked at most closely were Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Score (55.83%), Customer Retention Rate (CRR) (39.21%), and Average Handle Time (36.97%). Is the Contact Center a Good Career?