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

Babelforce

Call center forecasting is a set of practices that aims to determine the contact volume and number of agents needed to handle that contact volume over a set period of time. To increase forecast accuracy, use Excel and Workforce Management software. Call center forecasting fundamentals.

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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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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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Offer More Consistent Customer Service with Accurate Workload Forecasts

Brad Cleveland Blog

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how many agents are hired, what your schedule should look like, the number of work stations you need, even how many snacks are in the cafeteria. You get the idea.

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Offer More Consistent Customer Service with Accurate Workload Forecasts

Brad Cleveland Blog

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how many agents are hired, what your schedule should look like, the number of work stations you need, even how many snacks are in the cafeteria. You get the idea.

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What Is Business Forecasting? (and How to Increase Your Forecast Accuracy)

Babelforce

What types of business forecasting are there? Types of business forecasting are dependent on what you want to predict about the future. Every business forecast focuses on a particular outcome or call center metric. Here are the different types of business forecasting: General business forecasting.

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10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)

Brad Cleveland Blog

Accurate workload forecasting is critical to contact center success. Recently, I was reminded of an article I wrote that was published on icmi.com “10 Causes of Inaccurate Forecasts (and How to Avoid Them)”.