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What is Average Handle Time (AHT)?

ViiBE Blog

On the other, each call must be handled as promptly as possible to ensure that the next caller has a short wait time. Given these opposing demands, how can a center ensure that agents handle each call as efficiently as possible? A classic call center metric to measure this is the Average Handle Time (AHT).

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What is call center technology?

ViiBE Blog

At the core of each call center or contact center is the customer interaction. Call centers are run for different reasons, whether for communicating with prospective clients, or providing after-sales services or technical support. Here are some of the most common solutions: Traditional call center.

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Best Practices to Monitor Your Remote Call Center Agents

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Remote work has made us appreciate the way the agents could communicate with peers and supervisors without any hesitation in the physical work environment. The supervisors can also closely monitor and analyze agents’ availability, average handling time, the number of calls handled, break durations, etc.

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What is the call center experience?

ViiBE Blog

The call center experience is the overall interaction between the customer and the call center. A call center must center an agent around the customer using communication skills, empathy, and problem-solving. How do you describe a call center experience? Average Handle Time.

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5 Tips for Managing Remote Call Center Agents

NobelBiz

These might be qualitative goals that assure consumer happiness (for example, a need for higher FCR First Call Resolution rates). They can also be quantitative (such as lower average handling time , higher number of calls handled over a period of time, etc.).

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How Cloud Based Contact Center Solutions Increase Flexibility and Agent Productivity?

NobelBiz

To begin, most businesses are abandoning the call center paradigm in favor of contact centers. Because they offer an omnichannel approach to communication, they allow call center agents to switch between communication channels according to clients’ preferences.