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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. Leaders must set the tone for everyone else to follow.

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Why Your Contact Center Needs A Remote Work Policy?

Playvox

Remote work is a benefit that’s highly important to customer service agents. Agents in our survey were resounding in their praise for remote work arrangements. A sprawling 2022 survey of more than 20,000 knowledge workers by Microsoft offers some insights. Why bring agents back when even managers are satisfied with it?

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

At a leader level, do they feel like there are unclear/changing priorities? one day, you need to talk to someone about schedule adherence b/c service levels are rough but the next day they are being told to take it easy…) For some leaders, finding an appropriate balance is really hard.

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10 Key Metrics and KPI’s for Contact Centre Performance

Call Design

Average delay refers to the average amount of time a customer spends waiting in the queue for an answer from an agent whereas grade of service is the defined as a percentage of contacts answered within x seconds. Schedule adherence is the degree to which agents do what they are scheduled to do in terms of being logged on. ?It

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What Product Features Should I Look for in a WFM System?

Aspect

In a recent survey of contact centers by Aspect, we found that about 70% of agents were “work-from-home” as of April 16 , and a recent Gartner poll of CFOs indicates that 74% think telecommuting will become permanent. Working out of the house puts those personal activities within reach — if only they could flex their schedules a bit.

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Schedule like a Boss

Monet Software

When armed with good forecasts—which contact center automation tools, like WFM software, can help you build—you can create robust schedules that deliver the desired service levels and enhance the call center customer experience. Of course, making a cost-efficient, employee-motivating schedule only matters if teams adhere to it.

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How to evaluate a call center agent’s performance?

ViiBE Blog

If you focus too much on AHT, the overall service level of your call center will decrease. Implementing service recovery can help improve your first call resolution rate. Two crucial related KPIs that affect employee performance are schedule adherence and absenteeism. Average Speed of Answer. Employee break time.