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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

The virtual classroom of 2017 is a thing of beauty. For non-tenured agents, the only negative we initially see is longer Average Handle Times. This difference becomes negligible over time as they are coached on a continuous basis. The post What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

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Do Your Live Chat Agents Measure Up? The 9 Best Key Performance Indicators and How To Use Them

Comm100

A high number of missed chats may also indicate that agents are spending too much time on each chat. We’ll look more at the average handle time metric later. This key performance indicator reveals the percentage of time that agents are spending in live chats, wrap-up, and other activities, as opposed to “away” or offline.

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2017 Trend 3: The Beginning of Channel Guidance

Team HGS

2017 Trend 3: The Beginning of Channel Guidance. In 2017, companies are starting to switch from offering a wide array of channel options and letting customers choose their preferred channel, to strategically guiding customers in their online help centers to the best channel for resolution, depending on the reason for contact.

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Performance Management Takes Your Reporting to the Next Level

NICE inContact

According to a 2017 ICMI research study , 47% of surveyed organizations listed “consolidating reports” as one of the top challenges with performance management processes. Let me tell you – for the weeks it took to get the projections again, leadership was not happy, and we were hindered in our ability to make smart decisions.

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Interactions Research Paper Highlights Trustera’s Real-time PCI Data Redaction

Interactions

Growing Need for Real-time Redaction Technology The paper cites industry statistics that testify to the need for real-time redaction. Conclusion The paper concludes by highlighting the effectiveness and significance of Trustera’s approach to real-time redaction of sensitive information from audio data.

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Planning Your Live Chat Experience: How Many Agents Do I Need?

Comm100

To keep your live chat time down, we recommend that you make use of new software advances, such as canned message shortcuts, to reduce overall chat duration and speed up time customers spend on chats. For more tips, read our blog post: How to Reduce Your Average Handle Time Fast. Click here.

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THREE TECH SOLUTIONS TO HELP WITH THE NEW CUSTOMER SERVICE LANDSCAPE

VDS

Emerging technologies help companies reduce average handle time (AHT), increase customer satisfaction (CSAT), and increase profitability. The idea is to let technology handle mundane tasks, nuisance calls, and authentication, so your agents can focus on everything else.