Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

During last year’s open enrollment period, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported more than 5.78 million calls related to healthcare coverage to its contact center. In addition, a number of Talkdesk’s healthcare customers typically double their contact center workforce to meet the surge in calls.

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Abandon rate Customer Experience Healthcare contact center workforce 67

Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Workforce planners: These specialists forecast call volume and customer demand, and optimize agent scheduling to ensure adequate staffing levels and minimize customer wait times. They use data-driven insights to help balance operational efficiency with customer service needs.

Best practices 52

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

If you want your call center or department to be successful, it’s just not enough to ensure it’s working well or adhereing to some abstract call center management best practices. Handpicked related content for you: Top Customer Service Blogs to Read in 2020. Average Handle Time.

Call Center 126

Call Center Management Contact Center Coaching 126

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. It’s time to introduce a ‘less haste, more speed’ culture supported by the latest technology. Here, he explains how to build highly effective teams using workforce.

Contact Center 56

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

Behind hold times and high call volumes, management must ensure every agent is trained, every shift is covered, and every customer is satisfied. Call centers that provide exceptional customer service usually have many people working behind the scenes to ensure operational efficiency. Shift scheduling systems.

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call center workforce Call Center Agent burnout Management 75

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost.

Call Center 52

Call Center Schedule adherence call center workforce Management 52

Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Autoscoring your quality management forms and evaluating your calls using automated quality solutions can help your organization quickly, easily and objectively evaluate every recorded call for script adherence and other customer service requirements. helping your organization to create a better customer experience.

Average Handle Time 26

Average Handle Time First call resolution Employee engagement Coaching 26

Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them.

Contact Center 26

Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Customer Service 26

Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

Employee engagement 34

Employee engagement Quality management Analytics Best practices 34

Verint

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.

Interactive Voice Response 23

Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Average Handle Time Personalization 23

Balto

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, those that did layoffs cared slightly less about customer satisfaction and customer retention than those who did not do layoffs — and significantly less about net promoter score (NPS). They did, however, care more about dials per week and average handle time. The average age was 42.14

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