Abandon rate, Agent burnout and Average Handle Time

How to Measure, Evaluate, and Improve Call Center Agent Performance

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

To truly understand agent performance, its essential to recognize its direct impact on several key business outcomes: Enhanced Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: Agents who excel in their roles create positive experiences, fostering customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.

Call Center

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Fonolo

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Service level – the percentage of calls answered within a specified time frame. Average abandonment rate – the percentage of customers who hang up before interacting with an agent. Average time of work after calls – the amount of time agents spend working on related tasks after they’ve hung up with the customer.

Call Center

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Hodusoft

JULY 2, 2024

This leads to longer call times ( average handle time ), the key concern of about 40% of businesses. High Call Volume: Long wait times & high turnover rates in contact centers lead to increased abandonment rates and missed opportunities for upselling and cross-selling.

Agent burnout

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Top Call Center Agent Performance Metrics You Must Track

Balto

JANUARY 21, 2025

Agent-focused metrics, like average handle time, after-call work, and agent turnover, help gauge efficiency and agent performance. Formula: Pro Tip: Break call volume into categoriescalls managed by agents and self-service options (like interactive voice response systems).

Metrics

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Call Center Agent Performance Metrics: A Blueprint for Success

Balto

JANUARY 2, 2025

Agent-focused metrics, like average handle time, after-call work, and agent turnover, help gauge efficiency and agent performance. This helps you pinpoint opportunities to reduce agent load and improve contact center efficiency. Balancing both types of metrics is critical.

Metrics

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The 10 Essential Call Center Metrics You Can’t Live Without

Babelforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this post: Average Handling Time Customer Satisfaction Service Level First Contact Resolution Call Abandonment Rate Percentage of Calls Blocked Call Transfer Rate Wrap-up Time Customer Effort Score Average Idle Time. 1 Average Handling Time.

Metrics

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How to Handle High Call Volume: 10 Strategies for Success in Sales and Contact Centres

JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

Without implementing flexible scheduling options, such as alternate shifts or remote work arrangements, you cannot ensure that all time zones are covered while preventing agent burnout. Implementing callback solutions allows customers to receive timely assistance while relieving the pressure off of call center resources.

Sales

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Call Center Occupancy Vs Utilization: Their Importance and their Differences

JustCall

MARCH 6, 2023

Some of them are: Call arrival rate, for frequency of inbound calls. Call abandonment rate, which shows how many customers hang up before speaking with an agent. Average handling time, to indicate how long an agent takes to complete a customer call.

Call Center

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How to Calculate Occupancy Rate in a Call Center

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Why Your Call Center Needs to Watch Abandon Rates. ‘Occupancy Rate’ is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time). Keeping a close eye on the occupancy rate allows contact center managers to prevent agent burnout.

Call Center

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21 Call Center KPIs for Complete Performance Visibility

Babelforce

JULY 29, 2021

It’s useful to know, but – time spent talking doesn’t necessarily indicate service quality. #2 2 Average handle time (AHT). AHT is the average time it takes agents to handle a call, from when they pick up to when they finish after call work. 3 Call abandonment rate.

Call Center

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Advantages & Best Practices for Managing Callbacks in Contact Centers

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Being able to eliminate (or significantly reduce) one of the most critical stress factors for clients – the dreaded wait time – call centers can finally start building a sound and solid Customer Experience strategy. 3. Reduces call abandonment rates As mentioned before, customers despise waiting in line! The solution?

Best practices

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The Role of Real-Time Data in Workforce Management

Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

If too many people are scheduled, you’ll see downtime between interactions, lower occupancy rates, and lower employee productivity for the agents. If not enough people are scheduled, you will often see agent burnout due to minimal breaks between interactions, a higher-than-ideal occupancy rate, and higher overtime costs.

Management

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Successful Predictive Dialer Campaign for Your Business

NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

This ensures that customers are connected to the right agent. And that their issues are resolved in an efficient and timely manner. Track call center metrics, such as average handling time, first-call resolution rate, and customer satisfaction scores.

Abandon Call

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Being short-staffed causes gaps in the schedule and results in a situation where there are simply not enough agents to handle volume. One of the first places this shows up is higher average speed to answer (ASA). Increased abandon rates. Increased agent burnout. Over and over.

Contact Center

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Call Center Management: Best Practices, KPIs, Metrics & Roles

Balto

JANUARY 18, 2025

Workforce managers ensure the right people are available at the right time. Managing shifts to prevent agent burnout. Call Center Agents The Frontline Warriors Call center agents are the frontline warriors of any call center operation. Key Focus Areas: Forecasting call volume and staffing appropriately.

Best practices

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Call Center Management: Best Practices, KPIs, Metrics & Roles

Balto

JANUARY 17, 2025

Workforce managers ensure the right people are available at the right time. Managing shifts to prevent agent burnout. Call Center Agents The Frontline Warriors Call center agents are the frontline warriors of any call center operation. Key Focus Areas: Forecasting call volume and staffing appropriately.

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