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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. Leaders must set the tone for everyone else to follow.

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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

Simply put, workforce management is the strategic discipline of carefully deploying your resources, so you hit your service level targets while keeping costs in check. It can transform the customer and agent experience by aligning staffing levels with customer demand. higher adherence rate than those without.

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Transforming Your Contact Center Culture: A Case Study in Attitude and Effort

Expivia

The advent of analytics helped us address this issue. With analytics, we could measure agents’ tone during conversations, enabling us to quantify attitude. Sentiment scores allowed us to finally do this analytically and not subjectively. Quantifying attitude was more challenging.

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6 Healthcare Call Center Solutions for Better Patient Care and Agent Retention

Noble Systems

Automated WFM efficiently and effectively provides accurate forecasting, skills-based staffing optimization, intra-day changes, and schedule adherence. Workforce management healthcare call center solutions eliminate the time spent on scheduling and ensures appropriate staffing at all times.

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12 Call Center Best Practices You Need to Be Doing Right Now

Callminer

Quality monitoring software , such as speech analytics , automatically monitor and score 100% of calls, helping managers deliver objective feedback and improve agent performance. Leverage best practices from your top performing agents to get other team members up to their level. Avoid Negative Language. Vary Training for Retention.

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Appriss Tackles the World’s Toughest Problems Upgrading to Cloud Contact Center Technology

NICE inContact

Founded in 1994, Appriss is a data analytics company built on a core belief: Technology can and should be doing good for society. Accurate staffing was impossible, as was keeping service levels high. Schedules were done weekly—by hand—in Excel. The old system also lacked efficiency. Read about their amazing results.

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What Product Features Should I Look for in a WFM System?

Aspect

Maximum Insights for Adherence Alarms – With agents at home, the supervisor loses all the visual cues that enable him or her to understand whether agents are coming in late, leaving early, taking long lunches or any other departure from their official schedule.