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

Playvox

To minimize the percentage of unproductive time periods, you need a workforce management (WFM) solution that will accurately forecast multichannel agents across all channels in your business. The benchmark for this metric is typically 85-90% occupancy across all multichannel agents. What is the occupancy rate?

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The Best Advice for Contact Centers in 2018: The Experts Weigh In

Fonolo

Here, experts and influencers in the CX and CS industries give us incredibly valuable soundbites on best practices, boosting morale, improving performance, implementing technology, building partnerships, and delivering a well-orchestrated customer support offering to your burgeoning audience of customers. It’s not an easy job being an agent.

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Contact Center Performance: Mastering the Art of Transformation

NobelBiz

Integration with Customer Feedback Channels like surveys and reviews into your contact center operations can enable agents to gather valuable insights and adapt their approach accordingly. High turnover not only affects the contact center performance but also dampens team morale. The struggle to retain skilled agents is real.

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Agent Engagement Will Be Critical for Contact Centers in 2022

Fonolo

Lower contact center morale. Collecting feedback from your agents regularly will give you insights on how to best serve their needs. Team culture – ensure your agents feel supported and heard by creating opportunities for touchpoints and feedback. The consequences of overlooking disengaged agents? Embrace new technology.

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Meeting the customer service needs of APAC millennials

Eptica

Be multichannel While millennials are extremely active on social media, they don’t want to receive service exclusively through the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Smart companies will make sure they are listening to this feedback and using it to improve how they operate. Share this page on: Tweet.

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3 ways of reducing customer query volumes

Eptica

This rising volume of customer interactions, covering everything from questions about products and post-sales queries, to complaints and positive feedback , threatens to overwhelm many organizations. Author: Pauline Ashenden Consumers are sending an increasing number of questions to companies , across more and more channels.

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Don’t neglect the positive side of customer service

Eptica

In today’s social media-driven economy, consumers increasingly want to give feedback on how they have been treated, letting friends, family and the wider world know their thoughts on brands and the service they have received. This can be through review sites, Facebook, Twitter or even just word of mouth. Share this page on: Tweet.