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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. In fact, Gartner reports that by 2025, 60% of contact centers will have implemented AI-driven workforce management tools to help optimize scheduling and resource allocation. Workforce management software is a tool that facilitates this process.

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What’s Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?

Fonolo

Contact centers are like people: We’re all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way. As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. All contact centers face barriers, and you certainly know your own intimately.

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

Will remote agents continue to represent a significant proportion of the call center workforce? Or will SMB contact centers and clients rush to bring employees back to the traditional production floor? The contact center workforce was already going remote. Here’s why. Flexibility & Scalability.

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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. WFM to the rescue.

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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. Running a contact center takes me back to my school days and Aesop’s Fable of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’.

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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

Playvox

Contact centers have changed drastically in recent years. The once “in-person” centers dealing with inbound calls have been replaced by global, distributed customer experience teams. In this post, we’ll explore several trends that are driving this growth and are influencing contact center leaders’ decision-making.

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Make Life Easier for Your Entire Workforce

Aspect

So, it’s not surprising that contact center employees, like the rest of the human race, would like to be able to make their lives easier. Unfortunately, the contact center environment has a few more limitations. And happy employees are vital to an effective contact center.