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Call Center Service Levels: Calculations, Metrics, & Industry Standards

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One of these methods is Call Center Service Levels. The most basic definition of a service level is: a measurable number of services provided to a customer within a given time period. However, with a number of different formulas and definitions, there remains a great deal of confusion on the topic.

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SLAs For Today’s Contact Center

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If you’re in the contact center industry, 80/20 service levels are likely nothing new. You may have used 80/20 service levels in your operations! Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses. Those are good questions!

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Contact Centers Focusing Less on 80/20 Service Level

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In the wide world of call center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. It gives the industry a universally understood way to talk about how quickly calls are answered by agents. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers. Definitions. Thus, an “80/20?

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Service Level – Are You Measuring it the Wrong Way?

COPC

Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. However, in our consulting work, we find that this vital metric’s management and targets have yet to evolve from the original definition.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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Why is Call Abandonment Still a Thing?

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If you take a tech tool like ChatGPT and ask it about call abandonment in the contact center, the AI-powered bot will give you an earful about one of the most persistent problems in the customer service industry. So, how do you reduce abandonment rates in today’s contact center? Now you’re talking!

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The Undead: AI Can’t Die Because its Definition Keeps Changing

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It doesn’t follow these rules because its definition is fuzzy. “AI” The set of technologies that are included in the definition shifts with time. Two of the technologies that are currently in the “AI” bucket have a direct impact on customer service are ASR (speech recognition) and NLP (natural language processing).