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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

Employees who use it report having a better work-life balance and improved morale. That’s a goal on every call center manager’s radar these days! Improving the customer experience A better customer experience is always the goal in a contact center. That’s a goal on every call center manager’s radar these days!

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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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What’s Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?

Fonolo

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.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

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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How Has COVID-19 Affected Call Center Agent Turnover?

Fonolo

The cost of hiring and training agents is increasing. Compounding the impact of increasing attrition is the increasing costs of hiring, training, and retaining agents. There are Better Options for the Contact Center Workforce. How Will COVID Impact Contact Center Agent Attrition in 2021?

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The Top Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2019 [White Paper]

Fonolo

Gamification can potentially: Lower contact center employee attrition and boost productivity; Improve upon a flawed or outdated training model; Make for better customer experience via interactions with educated agents; Motivate your team to set high goals (or even vie for promotion) via healthy competitions; and/or.

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The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing In-House Contact Centers. Is Outsourcing the Answer?

BlueOcean

It’s likely they’ve analyzed and optimized their local talent pools to help deepen the candidate network from which they’re hiring—not to mention the flexibility they have if they have a strong remote workforce. In short, 100% of their job is finding the right agents, which can take the burden off your shoulders entirely.