Calabrio

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Customer Experience The Link Between Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention Share How Happy Employees Create Loyal Customers and Drive Business Success The contact center industry is plagued by high attrition rates, averaging around 32% and reaching as high as 60%.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever. Contact Center Trends 2023.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 8, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Gamification Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2017 Contact Center Gamification Product and Market Report.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping. Next stepattrition.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

At Playvox, we believe that gamification is just using data in a useful and smart way to drive people’s behaviors for the better. You’re probably familiar with one of the most famous examples: the gamification of physical movement in Just Dance , a video game that encourages players to imitate an animated dancer on the screen.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Contact Center Key Technology Trends for 2025: AI Leads the Charge Based on findings from a recent DMG Consulting survey, 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent year for technology investments in contact centers. Workforce management (WFM) came in second place, identified by 40.8% of survey participants.

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Contact Center Technology Interactive Voice Response Surveys 62

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center. Perhaps not.

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Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 77

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance. This is the case for many contact centers, where agents have been under-appreciated, under-recognized and under-rewarded for decades. The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon.

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Contact Center Self service Gamification Enterprise 77

Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all. Consider this.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Agent Empowerment 68

Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? Workforce Optimization is a business strategy that joins business performance and workforce management. Let’s take a look.

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

Playvox, one of the leading providers of workforce engagement solutions for digital-first and CRM-centric contact centers, today announced the launch of a global collaboration with Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). Playvox solutions deliver a powerfully simple way to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the contact center.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 10, 2023

5 Applications to Boost Contact Center Performance in a Tough Economy View this article on the publisher’s website. As enterprises tighten budgets due to the troubled economy, contact center leaders are under greater pressure to improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience (CX). Gamification.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Gamification Quality management 48

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market Report.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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Morale Contact Center Quality management Coaching 90

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

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Contact Center Gamification Metrics Quality management 52

Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Most contact centers have had to quickly transition to working from home as a direct effect of COVID-19. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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Playvox

MAY 2, 2023

While it might seem like just about everything is in the cloud these days, many contact centers still haven’t taken the leap. But moving to a cloud contact center can have big benefits for your company, your customers, and your agents. Remote work continues to be a highly desirable benefit for contact center employees.

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Cloud contact Contact Center contact center solutions Quality management 52

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2018

Question: How can we improve our contact center coaching? Coaching can include a wide range of functions facilitated by numerous contact center and workforce optimization (WFO) applications. periods of low volume) to minimize customer and contact center impacts.

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Coaching Contact Center Gamification Analytics 48

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Contact center management is hard. You manage employees in an industry that has one of the highest turnover rates out there. Let’s look into some ideas that will help you successfully manage you contact center environment while keeping your cool in the process. Very hard, actually. Consolidate tools.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Contact Center WFO Market Is Transforming. The contact center workforce optimization (WFO) suite market, also known as the customer engagement management (CEM) segment, has a 20-year history of executing well in both good and weak economies. In 2020, total contact center WFO revenue was $2.08

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Early attrition poses a significant and costly challenge for contact centers. and Centrical have teamed up to present the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, offering strategies to increase call center retention and lower attrition-related expenses. To address this issue, COPC Inc.

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Call Center Gamification Coaching Employee engagement 97

DMG Consulting

MAY 26, 2020

Question: Our contact center agents are working from home due to COVID-19 and many want to make it a permanent move. What technology will help us manage this shift? Additionally, two workforce optimization (WFO) applications to pay particular attention to are workforce management (WFM), and interaction analytics (IA).

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Contact Center Technology Gamification Management 48

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Morale Gamification Contact Center Quality management 78

DMG Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Question: Our contact center only has 25 agents, what workforce optimization applications should we use? WFO suites are highly beneficial for contact centers in small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) because they provide a fully integrated and unified set of applications for managing and optimizing the operating environment.

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Contact Center Gamification Coaching Analytics 48

NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

Young Energy uses a variety of CXone solutions, including NICE inContact CXone Workforce Management Enterprise, NICE inContact inView TM Performance Management for CXone and NICE inContact CXone Quality Management Enterprise. Issues are identified and addressed immediately.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Gamification Enterprise 48

DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. When: Today, 21 March 2017.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. growth rate for both the contact center WFO and WFM sectors, and a 10.7%

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contact center workforce Consulting Consulting Contact Center 48

DMG Consulting

MAY 25, 2018

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 15th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share.

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Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

Heightened stress levels also have a detrimental impact on employee retention—an ongoing problem for contact centers that becomes more damaging during crisis, when call volume can peak. It’s not just your contact center agents who are working from home. See what matters to your contact center with customizable dashboards.

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Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Gamification 75

NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2017

If you seem confused by this behavior, it may be time to look at your coaching and engagement style to help enhance your contact center performance. Additionally, you can employ gamification and recognition to track agent performance and reward them with coins and achievements that positively reinforce desired behaviors.

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Coaching Contact Center Construction Gamification 49

DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. By Donna Fluss. who interact with them.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Analytics Self service 48

Serenova

JUNE 11, 2019

For contact center agents, ambitious performance metrics, monotonous tasks and challenging customer interactions ratchet up the job-related stress levels. Quality management can help by monitoring and evaluating agents’ interactions with customers by recording calls and capturing agents’ desktop screens for ongoing evaluation.

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Customer Experience Gamification Contact Center Coaching 63