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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

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Executive Guide to 6 Call Center Metrics What is Workforce Management in a Call Center? Simply put, workforce management is the strategic discipline of carefully deploying your resources, so you hit your service level targets while keeping costs in check. It’s a great idea – and an obvious one.

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How a Workforce Engagement Solution Benefits Remote Customer Support

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The days of on-premises support systems and locally-based customer support agents is over. Cloud-based customer service platforms have significantly helped companies rapidly transition their workforce without compromising the reliability to serve their customers. Real-time Customer Support Management.

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How a Workforce Engagement Solution Benefits Remote Customer Support

UJET

The days of on-premises support systems and locally-based customer support agents is over. Cloud-based customer service platforms have significantly helped companies rapidly transition their workforce without compromising the reliability to serve their customers. Real-time Customer Support Management.

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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.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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The key functions of contact center workforce management are: Long-term capacity planning Interaction volume forecasting Staff scheduling Intraday management Historically call center managers maintained spreadsheets for agent forecasting and scheduling. But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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What’s Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?

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That’s fair enough, but the almighty bottom line is also affected by customers gained and lost. Along with sub-par products, poor customer service and slow or unresponsive customer support can spell the end of a customer’s journey with your brand. Contact centers are expensive, it’s true.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

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Their performance and effectiveness positively or negatively impact: Customer satisfaction scores (CSAT) and net promoter scores (NPS) – Agents who are disengaged or lacking customer support knowledge can negatively impact not only your scores but overall CX.