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2024 Predictions for Call Center Outsourcing

Outsource Consultants

Grading our 2023 BPO Industry Predictions Prediction: Agent Morale is 2023’s Top Priority In late 2022, we heard from new clients that a key concern for 2023 was partnering with BPO vendors adept at managing rising attrition rates. Prediction: Political Call Centers Confront the Self-Service Trend Why?

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Call center cost reduction strategies

TechSee

However, these drastic measures are usually short term as they negatively affect CX and employee morale. Contact center leadership must think strategically and find sustainable call center cost reduction strategies that do not compromise the quality and efficiency of the brand’s service. Slash inbound inquiries with self-service.

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COVID is Creating a Surprising Contact Centers Trend

Fonolo

” — Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach ™ , Author of Leading Morale , Customer Service & Leadership Consultant. CallMiner found that nearly 70% of customers said they were more empathetic and understanding of the challenges of agents and customer service departments during the pandemic. .’

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Call Center Optimization: 5 Methods to Improve Your Operation

Fonolo

Evaluate metrics like first-call resolution , customer satisfaction score, abandonment rate, and average handle time to measure performance, and compare them to your competitors. Ask agents for feedback, resolve issues, monitor performance, and take active steps to boost morale in the office. Then, act on your results.

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Agent Experience (AX): The Next Frontier for Elevating the Customer Experience (CX)

CCNG

While self service is getting better and better through the use of artificial in­telligence (AI) of varying degrees of sophistication, many questions continue to end up with agents, either because the customer couldn’t find the answer through self ser­vice, or the customer simply doesn’t like self service op­tions.

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Redefining Contact Center Productivity for the Modern Associate

The Northridge Group

Preferred Employee Experience: What Associates Want For employees, returning to fully in-office work reduces their experience by adding transportation time and costs, childcare expenses, and additional health expenses. Likewise, AHT is used to measure the time an associate spends working on a customer issue.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

When you have an agent shortage, it causes significant CX, operational, morale, and cost issues. Higher queue times. Being short-staffed causes gaps in the schedule and results in a situation where there are simply not enough agents to handle volume. Implement self-service to reduce demand for agent assistance.