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Contact Center Workforce Management: 2025 Guide

Balto

Mastering contact center workforce management in your contact center isn’t just about efficiencyits about creating a positive ripple effect. Effective contact center workforce management is the key to keeping both your agents and your customers happy.

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Service Level – Are You Measuring it the Wrong Way?

COPC

Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. However, in our consulting work, we find that this vital metric’s management and targets have yet to evolve from the original definition.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Workforce management for contact centers 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.

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Tortoise or Hare – Which One Best Describes Your Contact Center?

CSM Magazine

Real effectiveness is about providing agents with the right environment to give customers what they really want (fast, accurate answers to their problems first time around) while maximizing resources as cost-effectively as possible. Metrics that matter. It all comes down to the basics so let’s start with how contact centers measure.

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3 Things to Consider When Picking a Call Center Workforce Management Software

Fonolo

When it comes to call center workforce management, be sure your software entails these three functions: Forecasting tools. It requires detailed data collection and analysis of all customer communications, history, and metrics to predict the number of inbound calls for a future given time period (week, month, quarter).