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Call Center Optimization: 5 Methods to Improve Your Operation

Fonolo

During peak call volume periods, make sure you don’t understaff as this leads to overwhelm for your agents and long wait times for customers. Similarly, during slower call volume times, make sure you don’t overstaff. When too many agents are scheduled for a shift, idle time usually increases.

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CX Now: What Is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Why Is It More Important Than Ever?

bold360 Blog

The consequences of this double whammy are highly-negative for CX: longer wait-times, higher customer dissatisfaction rates, more customer churn and diminishing revenues. Flip the coin over, and we see that employee experience is also suffering. What is NLP and how does it support CX? NLP distributes workload, liberates reps.

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10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center

Hodusoft

By providing self-service options like IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems, automated chatbots, virtual assistants, and others for routine inquiries, customer’s routine queries can be resolved efficiently without agent intervention. Employee Engagement There is no doubt that highly engaged employees are more motivated and productive.

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Harnessing Human and Machine During the Pandemic

Creative Virtual

A direct quote of the explanatory theme for this Customer Service Week says: “The impact of events affecting the world today have changed the way in which companies and their employees engage with customers.” Cue the virtual agents, chatbots and virtual assistants.

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How to Improve your HR Team's Performance with AI-Powered Systems

Call Experts

Also, these automations will power real-time messaging and reporting, voice assistants, chatbots, deep learning, predictive intelligence, and machine learning. The most important thing to know about AI-driven employee management solutions is their ability to maintain a human approach while improving overall performance. . .

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A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

Engage agents The saying “happy agents make happy customers” may be overused, but that doesn’t mean it’s not 100% true. Engaged employees feel an emotional commitment toward their employers and are more vested in helping their employers succeed.

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5 Ways to Outpace Your Competition in 2022

Quiq

Boost employee engagement with gamification. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that our employees are the most valuable assets we have, and we need to do what it takes to keep them healthy and happy. You can use AI and chatbots in several ways to improve the customer experience.