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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. The results?

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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). WFM to the rescue.

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

The lasting impacts of COVID-19 are unknown but the accelerated shift to the remote call center workforce management is likely to endure. 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. Here’s why.

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What’s Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?

Fonolo

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. My recent research shows that for over three-quarters of companies 90 per cent or more of their contact center operating budget is allocated to keep existing processes and systems running.”

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Tortoise or Hare – Which One Best Describes Your Contact Center?

CSM Magazine

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. Here, he explains how to build highly effective teams using workforce. management (WFM). With customer-centric success criteria in place, turn to innovative workforce.

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Make Life Easier for Your Entire Workforce

Aspect

These breakthroughs don’t address the needs of the contact center staff who are not agents. The morale and productivity of supervisors, quality analysts, workforce planners and administrators of all sorts have a direct impact on the morale of agents and their ability to serve customers well.

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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

Playvox

Just as data is used to determine future weather conditions, workforce planning forecasting uses historical data to make informed estimates about the direction of future trends, seasonality, and staffing requirements. Workforce management (WFM) is a process that maximizes performance levels and competency for an organization.