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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

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Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned. Automation solutions go hand in hand with workforce optimization, and are in fact, sometimes synonymous with WFO. This results in long wait times and abandoned conversations.

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

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For just about any business or department, metrics are crucial to measuring performance. For the typical contact center, metrics are the key to identifying the reason behind a bad day and being able to create operational efficiency that helps avoid a repeat. Let’s break down these three key metrics.