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How to Calculate Schedule Adherence in the Call Center

Fonolo

We all know the ramifications: if you’re short an agent at peak time, your customers will feel the brunt of long waiting times. If you are looking to improve call center agent productivity and optimize your contact center operations , you must learn how to calculate call center schedule adherence.

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Calculating Schedule Adherence in the Contact Center

Taylor Reach Group

Calculation: Agent’s scheduled log in time – total amount of minutes out of schedule adherence X 100. Agent’s scheduled log in time. Agent’s schedule adherence is (480-10)/480 X 100 = 98%. Schedule adherence is generally calculated by your scheduling/WFM system.

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

Hodusoft

Additionally, to improve employee engagement and customer satisfaction, you can employ schedule adherence and conformance metrics. In general, customers do not seem to enjoy long wait times, either. They seem frustrated while agents try to answer questions for them while waiting. Prompt responses. Conclusion.

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What is Conformance?

Babelforce

If not, service levels will falter, wait times will increase, and agents will have a higher workload when they are working. Also, avoid confusing conformance with schedule adherence. An agent starting their shift ten minutes late will hurt service levels, occupancy rates, and queue time.

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What is Peak Hour Traffic?

Babelforce

If there aren’t enough available agents to handle call volume , call holding times will inevitably increase. Increased wait times lead to more call abandonment. Reduced schedule adherence. It’s important for call center agents to maintain schedule adherence. The result? Increased call abandonment.

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

Playvox

In times where doing more with less is critical, the first place a business should look to save costs is with their people and their processes. A more productive contact center will have shorter wait times and higher First Contact Resolution rates, usually leading to increased customer satisfaction.

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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

The Golden Rules of SLAs Real-time adherence Studies show that contact centers with WFM tools have a 7.5% higher adherence rate than those without. Real-time adherence ensures that contact centers can react quickly to changing customer demand. All roads should lead here, and WFM software puts you on track.