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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

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When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. However, some of the quickest ROI can come from the employee self-service (ESS) aspects of a WFM solution. What Is Employee Self-Service? All that time adds up quickly.

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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

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Real-time monitoring lets supervisors follow agent activity, track schedule adherence and make adjustments on the spot if needed. Promoting agent empowerment through self-service WFM tools often include self-service capabilities that are empowering for agents. And agent happiness is a natural outcome.

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What is Peak Hour Traffic?

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Reduced schedule adherence. It’s important for call center agents to maintain schedule adherence. Use an integrated IVR to facilitate self-service. IVR’s may sometimes get a bad rep from customers, but modern IVR solutions can communicate with your CRM and use this information to provide self-service tools.

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What Is Cost per Call? (Plus 4 Ways to Cut Yours!)

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2) Monitor schedule adherence. Call center schedule adherence is a measurement of how well your employees stick to their schedules. 3) Provide self-service options. If you can keep your employees on track, then you can reduce overall call costs. 4) Optimize first contact resolution.

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WFM ROI: Why You Need Workforce Management Software Now

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For contact center managers, this phrase rings in their heads each time they create a forecast, build a schedule, or track schedule adherence. . Working efficiently becomes even more important when costs are rising, agents are hard to hire, and customer service expectations are higher than ever before.

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18 Call Center Metrics You Need To Be Tracking Today

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Self-Service Usage: Leveraging self-service channels like IVR can greatly increase customer satisfaction. Self-service usage looks at how often customers can resolve their own issues without needing to engage with an agent. Learn more about how to increase first call resolution.

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How to Cash in on Contact Center Failures

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Assume you can make a 15% improvement to average handle time, first call resolution, self-service rate and schedule adherence. Our example is based on a hypothetical, 15-seat contact center servicing roughly 3,000 weekly interactions. Here is an example* of how improving these KPI’s can lead to big savings.