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19 Workforce Optimization Statistics to Steer You Toward a Better Customer Experience: Give Your Agents What They Really Want and They’ll Return the Favor

SharpenCX

My alarm jolted me from my deep sleep – a jarring contrast to the stark silence and black abyss of my dreamless state. I hit the snooze once. Then, when I realized I couldn’t fit in another snooze cycle, I set an alarm. Did I think those 60 seconds would leave me completely rejuvenated?

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Workforce management in your contact center is all about finding balance. Plus, you toss in overseeing your contact center budget, too. But you shouldn’t have to sacrifice customer happiness to run a lean contact center. Because modern WFM is shifting. We’re here to help.

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What is Call Center Shrinkage and How to Reduce It

Talkdesk

Why You Should be Tracking Call Center Shrinkage in 2019 Do you know how many of your scheduled call center agents are actually available to take calls at any given time versus how many are on break, attending team meetings, doing after call work, out sick or late to their shift?

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BI with an IQ - Revisited

Xaqt

Back in the winter of 2005, Jason Kolb (my cofounder and CTO of Latigent) and I penned an article for Business Management magazine titled BI with an IQ. In it, we paint the picture of a utopian contact center in which systems are fully integrated and intelligently automated. technologies were first emerging.

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20 Call Center Leaders and QA Pros Reveal the #1 Problem Keeping Call Center QA & Monitoring Teams Up at Night (and How to Solve It)

Callminer

Call center QA and monitoring teams are responsible for ensuring the quality of interactions between call center representatives and consumers. Meet Our Panel of Call Center Leaders and QA Pros: Art Coombs. “The huge turnover rate of call centers means…” Continuous hiring and training of new agents.

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Scheduling Legislation: What Employers Need to Know [Webinar Transcript]

Branch Mesenger

In today's webinar, we'll explore the current state of the hourly employee and how increasing demands and pressures are making scheduling more difficult. I'm excited to introduce today's guest Andrea Johnson , senior counsel for state policy at the National Women's Law Center. Andrea Johnson: Thank you. I'm excited to be here.