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6 Ways to Reduce Call Center Shrinkage

Fonolo

If you’ve staffed appropriately but shrinkage is still a problem, these tips can help turn your ship around. Track Schedule Adherence. Schedule adherence is an area where your workforce management (WFM) tools can be very helpful. When agents can’t do their best work, the customer experience suffers.

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

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Top 10 Tips to Improve the Productivity of Your Call Center Agents. Furthermore, allowing competent agents the freedom to retort differently and find creative ways to resolve issues can boost their morale, work engagement, and productivity. Particularly, the metric- cost per contact. Engage agents.

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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Agent Performance

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TIP: Common KPIs for contact center agents can include average handle time (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), and customer satisfaction score (CSat). Schedule Adherence Schedule Adherence is another older metric that can still be a useful measure of agent attendance. Everybody wins!

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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

” Before bringing in an automated solution for scheduling, many call and support centers may have had entire teams dedicated to managing schedules, adherence, time off, and other complexities that come with managing a remote workforce and global teams. And, there is no need to go all out on the types of rewards offered.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

These include staffing levels, employee experience, customer experience, agent workloads, team productivity, team morale, and the cost of labor. The result—it’s easier to build schedules and manage the daily fluctuations 3. This is the amount of time an agent works that coincides with the time they are scheduled to work.

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Top 5 Posts in May

Contact Center Pipeline

Our top 5 most-read posts in May offer valuable insights, recommendations and tips on managing contact center people, processes and technology.

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

Playvox

Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do? Look at schedule adherence and schedule compliance metrics. Accurate forecasting is critical and will tie directly to your agents’ schedule adherence. This is likely the area where you can make the most significant impact.