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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Agent Performance

Fonolo

Surveying your agents and gaining qualitative feedback can help you identify gaps in your operational processes, especially when compared with quantitative data. Schedule Adherence Schedule Adherence is another older metric that can still be a useful measure of agent attendance.

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Why Your Contact Center Needs A Remote Work Policy?

Playvox

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. Remote work is a benefit that’s highly important to customer service agents. Why bring agents back when even managers are satisfied with it?

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Related article: Call Center Workforce Management Metrics: How To Measure And Improve Performance How WFM Improves a Contact Center Beyond faster, more accurate forecasting and scheduling, here are some benefits WFM brings to contact centers. The result—it’s easier to build schedules and manage the daily fluctuations 3.

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

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. Mary generally has good schedule adherence, time management, and can be trusted to stay on task and get stuff done.

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How to Take Your WFM to the Next Level

Call Design

Or we could focus on “right time”, concentrating on our forecast accuracy and schedule adherence. Pulse surveys are a great way to get that feedback. Small surveys done on a regular basis can help you capture the voice of the employee and respond to them before the small issues become big ones.

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10 Key Metrics and KPI’s for Contact Centre Performance

Call Design

A common grade of service is 70% in 20 seconds however service level goals should take into account corporate objectives, market position, caller captivity, customer perceptions of the company, benchmarking surveys and what your competitors are doing. It is measured as a percentage of scheduled time on the phone. Advisor Satisfaction.

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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.