Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

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. higher adherence rate than those without.

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Monet Software

MARCH 10, 2021

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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Fonolo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As much as we’d like to have faith in humanity, and customers are entitled to feeling frustrated when ignored or delayed, call centers grapple with constant inappropriate and abusive calls on a daily basis. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs. How to Set a Winning Service Level. What’s Inside: SLAs in Nutshell.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Then, there’s the constant battle between operations (who want ‘fast and cheap’) and the contact center (whose job is to make ‘customers feel loved’). This perennial tug of war is damaging to agent morale, the customer experience and health of the overall business.

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Aspect

JANUARY 21, 2019

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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Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

According to 2022 research by ICMI , almost half of contact centers (47%) are still manually creating forecasting models. An AI-driven workforce management solution does the heavy lifting to automate forecasting and many of the other repetitive and time-consuming manual tasks in contact center workforce management.

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