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Contact Center Executive Outlook on Employee Engagement

Contact Center Pipeline

Employee engagement continues to top the lists of management challenges—and with good reason. It’s a complex issue that directly influences the business—positively or negatively—through staff retention, productivity, schedule adherence, workplace culture and morale, service delivery and customer experience.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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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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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. By applying scores and prizes to your employees’ everyday tasks, you can make work feel more enjoyable and increase employee engagement.

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Top 10 Tips to Improve the Productivity of Your Call Center Agents

Hodusoft

Call center managers can target other pressing issues as a result of streamlining workflow. Furthermore, allowing competent agents the freedom to retort differently and find creative ways to resolve issues can boost their morale, work engagement, and productivity. Engage agents. Set personal goals. Static agent concept.

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Can a Flexible Workplace Still Get Things Done?

Monet Software

With a WFM solution, responsive scheduling and service-level achievement can combine with ease. Many contact center leaders will often feel like Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. Inhabiting one persona, managers strive to make employees happy, adapting to their needs and requests. But they’re not the best answer for schedules.

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Absenteeism Is a Pain

Contact Center Pipeline

According to Benchmark Portal, absenteeism equates to 6.48% of all scheduled hours in a contact center. Absenteeism is a pain, we all know that. Everyone is looking for a silver bullet to stop absenteeism. A quick Google search brings up thousands of articles with countless ideas for reducing absenteeism.

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