Vistio

DECEMBER 12, 2023

High training costs, high attrition, agent burnout, and outdated systems get in the way of empowering agents to provide excellent customer service. So, how best to fix these issues to boost agent productivity and morale?

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JustCall

APRIL 15, 2024

As a sales or customer support manager, you’ve likely noticed some agents seem disengaged, burned out, or stressed. Call center agent burnout is a real problem, and the job demands can take a toll on even the most resilient employees. Burnout disturbs the agent’s focus and motivation.

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Call Center Agent burnout Scripts Metrics 52

SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily.

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Coaching Management Contact Center Agent Empowerment 76

JustCall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s also about how they handle the tech tools that power their work. Many growing businesses are struggling with this very hidden blocker that’s making it hard for their agents to work efficiently. It’s called the “agent tech stack mess”. The agent tech stack mess primarily breeds agent burnout.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

If so, you should have a work environment that’s designed for easy collaboration, regular training and meetings where teams can work together, workflows that support cross-team collaboration, state-of-the-art communication tools so teams can easily communicate, and so on. Core values don’t mean much if they’re not backed by action.

Call Center 62

Call Center Morale Employee engagement Customer centricity 62

JustCall

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Such circumstances fray the efficiency and morale of your customer service teams and steer them towards burnout, sending customer satisfaction spiraling down. A non-negotiable tool in today’s climate, IVR systems strategically deflect, prioritize, and streamline calls, asserting control.

Interactive Voice Response 52

Interactive Voice Response Management Agent burnout Wait times 52

JustCall

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Such circumstances fray the efficiency and morale of your customer service teams and steer them towards burnout, sending customer satisfaction spiraling down. A non-negotiable tool in today’s climate, IVR systems strategically deflect, prioritize, and streamline calls, asserting control.

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Interactive Voice Response Management Agent burnout Wait times 52

Balto

JANUARY 21, 2025

Simplify post-call workflows for call center agents to minimize delays. Improve workforce management with real-time support tools to ensure efficient task handling. Streamlining after-call work boosts center performance metrics and allows agents to focus on incoming calls without unnecessary delays.

Metrics 52

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Balto

JANUARY 2, 2025

Simplify post-call workflows for call center agents to minimize delays. Improve workforce management with real-time support tools to ensure efficient task handling. Streamlining after-call work boosts center performance metrics and allows agents to focus on incoming calls without unnecessary delays.

Metrics 52

Metrics Call Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time 52

SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

And, it gives you ample opportunities to celebrate progress, keeping morale high and teams engaged. When agents view your quarterly goals through the lens of their individual role, they can be intimidating. When agents can’t measure progress toward their objectives and goals, productivity stalls and performance plateaus.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Customer Service Agent burnout Benchmark 67

Balto

JANUARY 18, 2025

Balancing customer satisfaction, agent performance, and operational efficiency isnt just hardit can feel like a game where the rules change daily. Monitoring call center performance metrics is crucial for ensuring smooth customer interactions and motivated agents. Managing shifts to prevent agent burnout.

Best practices 52

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2025

Balancing customer satisfaction, agent performance, and operational efficiency isnt just hardit can feel like a game where the rules change daily. Monitoring call center performance metrics is crucial for ensuring smooth customer interactions and motivated agents. Managing shifts to prevent agent burnout.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While these tools have definitely contributed to better customer experiences, fully relying on them can backfire. Even if their interaction doesn’t lead to a conversation with a live agent, enhancing chatbot conversations and automated email messaging to include a more natural conversational flow with a human feel can make all the difference.

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contact center solutions Enterprise Contact Center Agent burnout 52

JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The need of the hour is for managers of work from home call centers to assist, interact and engage with their home agents using a range of reporting, monitoring and management tools. Provide your employees with the right tools and support and give them the autonomy they need to do their jobs and make decisions as they see fit.

Call Center 52

Call Center Management Agent burnout Scripts 52

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

These include staffing levels, employee experience, customer experience, agent workloads, team productivity, team morale, and the cost of labor. Overcoming the Shortcomings of Spreadsheets in Workforce Management Spreadsheets may have been the tool of choice for forecasting and scheduling when call centers were voice-only.

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Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

As a result, organizations have adopted agile, efficient, and scalable cloud-based tools. 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. billion valuation by 2031.

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Contact Center Workload forecasts Agent burnout Customer retention 55

Balto

JANUARY 14, 2025

Real-Time Analytics: Provides live insights to assist agents during ongoing interactions. Contact center analytics is a crucial tool that helps businesses track and analyze performance metrics, ultimately aiming to enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. This personalization increased customer retention by 18%.

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Voxjar

JANUARY 11, 2018

Less Agent Burnout – A first call resolution leads to less customer frustration directed towards reps and makes an inherently stressful job more enjoyable. That can leave you in a moral quandary…. We believe that Voxjar can help you improve FCR in your small or midsize contact center more than any other tool.

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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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