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What is Call Center Shrinkage?

Fonolo

Picture this: You’ve got 100 agents scheduled to work on a Monday morning—enough staff to cover this notoriously busy shift. But at any given time, some individual staffers will be unavailable. They might be on a break or in a meeting, and some have likely called in sick or arrived late. External Factors Include: Sick time.

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10 Key Metrics and KPI’s for Contact Centre Performance

Call Design

Understanding how to make a profit on the double bottom line (DBL) involves employing a broad range of KPIs and key metrics to ensure a contact centre meets every need that a business may have in supporting their customers. Average Handle Time (AHT). It is measured as a percentage of scheduled time on the phone.

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Schedule like a Boss

Monet Software

You need to understand contact trends, including how volumes change throughout the day, week and year; how average handle times are evolving; where your agent occupancy stands; and so on. You might handle everything from inbound sales to product repair scheduling to billing support. #4 3 Tap into Talents.

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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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KPI 101: Call Center Workforce Management Metrics

Global Response

Average handle time (AHT) measures the average length of interaction, including hold time, talk time, and after-call work. The average speed of answer (ASA) is used to calculate the average time a call remains in the queue until a Brand Specialist has picked it up. Average handle time.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions. Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do? How accurate is your forecast to actuals?

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Occupancy Rate: The Complete Guide

Fonolo

The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics Occupancy rate is rarely calculated on an individual level; typically it will be used to determine which times of day, week or year you will need to schedule more agents to handle call volume. This is the same thinking that goes into calculating handle time.