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

Aspect

Some organizations even resorted to agents using their personal cell phones as tools of customer service. Service suffered, but many organizations found that sending agents home could not only work , but in fact, work quite well. . O rganizations simply did the best they could.

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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.

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

CSM Magazine

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. It’s time to introduce a ‘less haste, more speed’ culture supported by the latest technology. Here, he explains how to build highly effective teams using workforce.

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Driving Holistic Customer Engagement Excellence

Verint

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

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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. If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them.

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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

For example, those that did layoffs cared slightly less about customer satisfaction and customer retention than those who did not do layoffs — and significantly less about net promoter score (NPS). They did, however, care more about dials per week and average handle time. The average age was 42.14