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What Is Call Center Forecasting (and How to Increase Your Forecast Accuracy)

Babelforce

Here you determine how many Full-Time Equivalents you need compared to how many you have by pulling together a forecast for staffing and workload. Workload forecast is the contact volume (the number of incoming calls and messages) multiplied by contact average handle time AHT (time needed for a call).

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What Is Workforce Management in a Call Center?

Global Response

Call center volume can spike or diminish rapidly based on: unplanned outages severe weather or phone lines being down sudden product recalls press coverage or relevant current events In addition, unexpected changes to staffing and scheduling can occur due to illnesses, transportation dilemmas such as train strikes, severe weather and so on.

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Remote Control: Managing Work at Home Contact Center Agents

Monet Software

How WFM and QM combine to engage an offsite call center workforce and deliver superior CX. High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. What’s more, WFM software can give agents what they don’t realize they need—structure.

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Building Blocks of Workforce Management

Insite Managed Solutions

Understanding contact center metric targets such as average speed of answer (ASA), service level, abandonment rate, average handle time (AHT), and budgeted hours are critical for success. He built and led several Workforce Management departments as well as Management Information System (MIS) departments.

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10 Ways to Keep Call Center Employees Engaged as 2020 Winds Down

Monet Software

Right now, agents may feel pulled in too many directions—family, shopping, finances, job, events and have we mentioned the pandemic?! Even cutting out the clutter on the production floor—or encouraging clean desks for remote agents—can help employees re-center so they get back into the customer service mission. #4 Don’t add to it!