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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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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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The Contact Center Workforce Manager Skill Set for Forecasting

The Call Center School

Part 1: Workload Forecasting Skills. In contact centers today, roughly 65% to 75% of the total operating cost is consumed through paying the frontline staff. For that reason, the biggest opportunity for contact centers to manage or reduce cost is to optimize the utilization of their frontline workforce.

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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

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According to 2022 research by ICMI , almost half of contact centers (47%) are still manually creating forecasting models. An AI-driven workforce management solution does the heavy lifting to automate forecasting and many of the other repetitive and time-consuming manual tasks in contact center workforce management.