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Silencing the Noise: Unveiling the Impact on Contact Centre Agents and Brands

CSM Magazine

In fact, recent research shows that 69% of agents reference background noise around them or customers as a key component of declining mental wellbeing. All of which leads to a drop in waiting time and misunderstandings, which always increases average handling time (AHT).

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A First-Time Outsourcing Decision Pays Long-Term Dividends?

GlowTouch

The volume was outpacing the in-house support team’s ability to keep up, so for the first time in its history, the company took on an outsourcing partner and incorporated chat into its customer communications channel mix. The all-encompassing nature of the job is a boon to agent engagement as it prevents staleness from appearing.

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Contact center workforce 101: IVR vs. chatbots vs. agents

Think Customers

Customer service interactions can quickly evolve, requiring different channels and tools. A quick live chat with a bot, for instance, can rapidly escalate to an emergency call with an agent, which we refer to as an associate, and vice versa. The same is true for a call that begins with an interactive voice response (IVR) system.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Hyper Efficiency: The Next Frontier in Contact Center Operations Management

NobelBiz

Hyper efficiency refers to the ability of an organization or a team to perform at a level that is significantly higher than what is considered standard practice. These metrics should be data-driven, allowing you to identify areas of improvement and track progress over time. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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How to Measure Success in the Contact Center

Interactions

This translated to the goal of interacting with as many people as possible, in the shortest amount of time. Average Handling Time (AHT) was, and still is, one of the most important metrics used in contact centers. The more calls in the shorter amount of time means a lower cost per call.

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AI Customer Service: Today’s Most Transformative Technologies

TechSee

Customer-facing AI technologies are especially relevant to assisting in customer identification, call classification/routing, chatbots and predictive personalization. Customer Identification. Biometrics refers to body measurements and calculations for the purpose of authentication, identification and access control.