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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM).

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

Playvox

Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. 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.

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2018: The Year In Review

Monet Software

We were proud to announce the official release of our Workforce Management (WFM) solution for Salesforce, which integrates easily with Salesforce Service Cloud or Sales Cloud case management systems to provide an advanced omnichannel WFM solution directly from Salesforce. Another award so soon? What will the New Year bring? Stay tuned!

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned.

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

Playvox

Call center leaders are under increased pressure to improve operational and agent efficiencies and look for cost-cutting opportunities while delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) — a tricky balancing act for sure. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Is your call center prepared?

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An Introduction to the Virtual Call Center

Noble Systems

What is a virtual call center? Imagine a call center – a hub of inbound and outbound calls, staffed by a team of agents and managers – but the agents and managers are located off-site, whether in small groups in other offices or individually at their own homes. This is the concept of the virtual call center.

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Call Center Workforce Management Metrics: How To Measure And Improve Performance

Playvox

Choosing the right call center workforce management metrics to monitor and manage in your customer support center is essential for the success and longevity of the customer experience. Workforce management solutions like Playvox WFM let you take a much more detailed approach to analyzing a customer support center.