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Time to Talk Seriously about Speech Analytics in the Contact Center

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Get ready for the next big thing in contact center workforce optimization: Speech Analytics. Even though speech analytics was introduced to the contact center industry back in 2003, Aberdeen Group reports that only about 15% of contact centers currently use speech analytics.

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Remote Work: The Dangerous Disconnect Between Contact Center Management and Agents

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There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. But only 40% of support center managers we talked to said they were planning to continue remote work in 2022. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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How to Enhance the Agent Experience for Your Hybrid Contact Center Team

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While working from anywhere has its advantages, it also means leaders have the extra challenge of managing contact center agents in multiple locations. A great way to determine if your contact center team is engaged is to watch for behaviors commonly displayed by disengaged employees. Download our eBook.

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5 Powerful Benefits of Cloud Contact Center Solutions

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The pandemic permanently changed the contact center landscape. Globalization and a younger workforce that prioritizes work-life balance are forces that likely would have compelled contact centers to gradually adopt a work from anywhere agent model. Benefits of Cloud Based Contact Center Solutions.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

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Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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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. WFM to the rescue.

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How Conversational AI Can Optimize Your Workforce

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The current labor shortage is a big problem, especially for contact centers. Without enough agents in a contact center, customers cannot get the help they need. However, when the contact center is understaffed, by the time customers reach an agent, they’re already frustrated and angry.