Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

Schedule adherence and after call work management are part of the overall performance management processes. “The International Contact Center Benchmarking Consortium (ICCBC.org) provides thorough data and trends analysis. Both of these are the responsibility of the operations team, not the workforce management team.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Strategies to Improve Customer Satisfaction KPIs: Clearly define each metric and establish benchmarks. Benchmark: Many organizations aim for an AHT of 480 seconds (8 minutes), depending on industry standards. Industry Standard: The 80/20 rule (80% of calls answered within 20 seconds) is a common benchmark.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

At Outsource Consultants, we’ve observed how Indian call centers are setting new benchmarks for service excellence. This has resulted in improvements in schedule adherence and operational costs for many centers. However, recent years have seen a remarkable transformation in their approach to quality assurance.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do? Look at schedule adherence and schedule compliance metrics. Average handle time and response time vary by channel, so it’s critical to benchmark and track by channel. Accurate forecasting is critical and will tie directly to your agents’ schedule adherence.

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Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

It minimizes administrative effort, improves agent engagement and schedule adherence, and reduces labor costs. With quality management solutions like CxEngage QM , call center agents can be recorded and scored against benchmarks. Forecasting. Forecast workloads across channels (chat, email, voice, SMS, Facebook).

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Source: Global Benchmarking Series | CX Understanding and Strategy For example, if your goal is to be a low-cost outsourcer, efficiency metrics like average handle time (AHT) should be at the forefront of your scorecards. Supporting that statement with a scorecard helps align these views. Even utilization may be out of an agent’s hands.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Our consumer benchmark study revealed that 87% of consumers are willing to buy more products from businesses that provide great experiences, so it’s a sound strategy. This may help them with benchmarking and goal setting. Some companies even use call center gamification as an incentive system for performance.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2022

Collecting new information via post-call/post-contact surveys or other means is critical to understanding customer sentiment in today’s environment so you set new benchmarks based on current state and evolve your program accordingly. We can’t rely on pre- or mid-pandemic data to tell the story either—we’re in a whole new world.

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Dialer 360

AUGUST 18, 2017

Call center benchmarking is the basis for deciding if a group is performing in a perfect manner. Benchmarking is basic to the accomplishment of the call focus. Administrators trying to improve their way to deal with call center benchmarking. This blog entry will enable managers to do this last in their call center benchmarking.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Schedule Adherence. This comparison, based on their tenure and other performance metrics, can lead to the provision of additional coaching if they are lagging the expectation or team performance, or benchmarking if they are exceeding the expectation and team performance. Typical Agent metrics will likely include; 1. Login time.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

Adherence to Schedule Another productivity related call center metric, adherence to schedule assesses how well agents manage their on-the-job time. When schedule adherence is high, that means you agents are focusing most of their energy on addressing customer issues.

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COPC

APRIL 6, 2018

Many call center metrics focus on platform efficiencies like speed of answer, handle time, schedule adherence, etc. In Customer Experience Management Benchmark (CXMB) Series research conducted by COPC Inc. and Execs In The Know, consumers are very clear regarding their expectations of non-voice solutions.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

There are over 30 contact center KPI benchmarks that your business can track to achieve higher performance. Adherence to Schedule Adherence to a schedule helps you understand how much time your agents spend idling. You will get the CSAT score by multiplying this figure by 100.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Schedule adherence refers to how well an employee complies with their scheduled work times, including start, stop, break and time off. Service level (SLA) sets benchmarks for future performance. This calculation can be obtained by dividing workload hours by staff hours. Also known as utilization.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

These metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) are put in place to help leaders benchmark and track improvements to agent performance, call center operations, and ultimately how these metrics lead to improved customer service delivery and outstanding customer experience.

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Hodusoft

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Thus, this metric is very helpful in organizing team benchmarks and determining agents who need more training to serve customers better. It is an excellent indicator to track the agent’s performance and monitor their schedule adherence. Imagine if agents won’t take the stress of maintaining low AHT.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

According to Call Centre Magazine, the global industry benchmark for AHT (regardless of industry and team size) is six minutes and three seconds. Thus, this metric is very helpful in organizing team benchmarks and determining agents who need more training to serve customers better. In most cases, businesses should have lower AHT.

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