Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Balance Your Contact Centers Workloads Adopting a proactive, rather than reactive, workforce management approach is crucial to overall agent performance.Get ahead of issues, avoid agent burnout, and meet customer demand efficiently with the help of sophisticated forecasting and scheduling tools.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 19, 2020

The idiom “Open the Door” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “to make something easier.” Who isn’t interested in making something easier? Think back on the past couple of years and the push toward improving the customer experience. This has put a lot of value on making things easy for consumers. Which Door Will It Be? […].

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These solutions boost agent effectiveness and engagement, while improving customer satisfaction and lowering costs, by using Qualtrics’ industry-leading natural language understanding and machine learning capabilities to identify sentiment, reasons for calls, common issue resolutions, compliance risks, and more.

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Quiq

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Occupancy: Occupancy is the amount of time an individual agent spends actively occupied on a customer interaction. An excessively low occupancy suggests the contact center has hired more agents than contact volume demands. How to Improve Contact Center Metrics.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

From a contact center leader’s perspective, you can protect agents’ emotional and mental well-being in these situations by using your customer sentiment analysis solution to monitor for language common to customers with high emotional demands.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In one go, they increase planning flexibility, reduce idle time and facilitate better occupancy control to guard against agent burnout, which negatively affects AHT. The beauty of cloud-first contact centre solutions is they make light work of scaling up and down as your business changes.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Contact Center AI is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in contact centers to increase agent efficiency and boost customer satisfaction throughout all stages of the customer journey. One example is when a banking customer wants to deactivate their credit card if they suspect it’s stolen.

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JustCall

MAY 23, 2023

During this session, you will learn how AI-powered coaching, guidance, and sentiment analysis along with integration and analytics, can help engineer better conversations. With 100+ phone system integrations, JustCall ends agent burnout and initiates smarter workflows.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training is a major cost for the industry and CX leaders often deal with 40% agent churn. 51% of poorly trained agents are pessimistic about their careers—an outlook that can lead to poor performance, unhappy customers, and agent burnout—yet 61% of agents who received good training felt optimistic.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

AI-powered QA and conversation analytics solutions have made it possible for contact centers to automate data collection and analysis with real-time insightful reports and forecasts. These inefficiencies can be a result of low agent morale, high turnover rates, agent burnout, and a lack of self-service channels.

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Balto

JANUARY 14, 2025

Real-Time Analytics: Provides live insights to assist agents during ongoing interactions. Sentiment Analysis: Analyzes customer emotions to improve engagement. Call center management operations enhances operational efficiency and performance through data analysis, leveraging customer insights to identify new revenue opportunities.

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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.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But if your agents aren’t tagging these conversations for analysis and action, you aren’t getting the full value out of your chat software. Related Article: How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It). What Is Conversation Tagging? Take The Headaches Out of Tagging.

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aircall

OCTOBER 31, 2016

However, data collection, monitoring, and analysis is an endeavor as time-consuming as it is necessary. There exist many services dedicated to data collection and analysis which can take over the grunt work. This is a recipe for agent burnout , and for an unsuccessful and unsustainable strategy.

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Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

This lets workforce managers focus instead on the analysis of data and insights to feed the continuous improvement cycle. Let’s also consider the need to provide agile agent schedules to boost agent engagement and performance. Many WFM tools now consider actual agent availability to assist with scheduling.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

The software then uses algorithms and machine learning techniques to predict when an agent will become available to take a call. This analysis is based on historical customer data and traffic patterns. Agent Burnout Predictive dialing can result in a high volume of calls for agents, leading to burnout and reduced productivity.

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Balto

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ideally, you need your occupancy rate to be under 90% to compensate for random demand fluctuations and avoid agent burnout. This could pressure your agents into rushing their calls with the customers, negatively affecting the overall customer satisfaction levels. Text analysis. Speech analytics. Reduce Your Turnover Rate.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is also an opportunity to dig deeper into the agent’s tasks and make sure they are realistic. Prevent Agent Burnout. can lead to stress and burnout. You can provide appropriate software to work from home call center agents for after-call support and simply give them a chance to relax when needed.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Let’s begin with these six components of contact centers: Hardware and software Data tracking, monitoring, analysis Scripts and messaging templates Self-service Cloud-based contact centers Superstar call agents These components facilitate the contact center process in three steps, as discussed below.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

All statistical analysis was performed using one-way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests, and verified with Tukey’s Honestly-Significant Difference and Dunn’s post-hoc tests. 2021 Contact Center Agent Survey Report – Balto Ai. Contact Center Attrition: What Agents Want in 2022 – Balto Ai. Sources Balto.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Many brands already incorporate sentiment analysis (an area of emotional AI) as part of their social media strategy to track customer opinion and gain valuable consumer insights. According to Salesforce, 64% of agents with AI chatbots are able to spend most of their time solving complex problems, versus 50% of agents without AI chatbots.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 3, 2024

Many juggled the challenge of maintaining existing morale while migrating more agents back to the office ; while others simply wanted to ensure their agents stayed engaged. Outcome: Spot On Agent burnout was rampant in call centers throughout 2023 , with 32% of centers not actively monitoring for it.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 16, 2025

Round-Robin Routing This method distributes direct incoming calls evenly among available agents. It helps balance workloads and prevents agent burnout, particularly in high volume call centers. While simple, it supports efficient call routing and consistent agent performance.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Avoid agent burnout High workloads, stress, poor efficiency, and poor results can quickly add up to burned out agents on the frontline. With so many organizations facing issues with attritionrecently, 63% of agents expressed a high risk of burnoutimplementing a sound contact center forecasting strategy cant be overlooked.

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