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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. Automation solutions go hand in hand with workforce optimization, and are in fact, sometimes synonymous with WFO.

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

The contact center workforce was already going remote. The call center industry was beyond the experimental phase of work-from-home before COVID-19 hit. Numerous companies had adopted it as their sole workforce model, among them many SMBs that found in remote agents a flexible, low-overhead workforce option.

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Automated Quality Management Drives Objective Evaluations, Job Satisfaction

Verint

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry. contact center industry.

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The Morale Doctor is In

Monet Software

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? Can you switch up the work, put them in charge of a project, have them coach a colleague or offer other opportunities? Doing so might drive some new excitement.

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5 Ways Quality Assurance Improves Employee Satisfaction and Morale

Monet Software

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. This way, the learning curve is more manageable and agents can celebrate their progress. #2 But QA can be so much more!

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7 Tips for More Inspiring Quality Feedback in the Contact Center

Monet Software

The right approach to call center quality management builds agents’ skills and enhances workforce engagement. Quality assurance (QA) sessions are a primary vehicle for skills-building in any contact center. Yet there will be occasions when there is no choice but to let go.

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Remote Work: The Dangerous Disconnect Between Contact Center Management and Agents

Playvox

Because many customer service centers’ remote work policies require agents to maintain specific performance standards , managers cite solutions such as workforce management (29%) and quality management (26%) as other contact center software they turned to.