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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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

BlueOcean

Can a contact center partner really manage a team of agents working remotely as effectively as they can manage someone sitting right beside them? Managing Work-at-Home Call Center Agents. There’s no denying that there is an enormous amount of trust required with a work-at-home model in your outsourced call center.

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Performance Management Takes Your Reporting to the Next Level

NICE inContact

When I worked in a contact center, there was a complicated projections report that we presented to the leadership team every Monday morning. This experience might sound crazy, but there many contact center managers reading this and nodding their heads because they’ve been there! Automate your analysis process.

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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.

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AI Customer Service: Today’s Most Transformative Technologies

TechSee

The field is becoming increasingly mainstream with a 2017 Tractica report predicting that biometric hardware and software revenue will grow to $15.1 Utilizing robotic process automation (RPA) in contact centers has been proven to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies. Contact Center workload management.

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Five Steps to Strategically Choose AI For Customer Service

Natalie Petouhof

Increase First Contact Resolution (FCR). Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). And AI development is not the core business focus of a contact center. Wasted time and money and longer time-to-value. MIT Sloan and BCG Study, 2017. Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)…. The result?

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Neglecting Your Contact Centre

Clarabridge

In many cases, the problem is still that contact centres are seen as cost–centres and therefore management become obsessed with their efficiency. The primary focus for inbound contact centres is often the service level achieved, perhaps followed by Average Handle Time, Adherence or other measures of productivity and performance.

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