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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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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

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Contact centers have changed drastically in recent years. The once “in-personcenters dealing with inbound calls have been replaced by global, distributed customer experience teams. According to 2022 research by ICMI , almost half of contact centers (47%) are still manually creating forecasting models.