NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. So, what are the top metrics you should be looking at?

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It helps improve customer satisfaction by cutting down on wait times and increasing efficiency. Investing in automated pipelines for tasks like claims processing and policy issuance will reduce wait times for customers. It will also save you time that can be utilized in other aspects of your service.

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Kayako

MARCH 3, 2016

We have put together a list of key customer service metrics, so you can be sure that your support team is doing the best it can to help your customers. On this page you can see a complete list of all the customer support metrics that matter, and why. Navigate this guide: Productivity metrics. Performance metrics.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Performance Metrics: Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) such as customer satisfaction, churn rate, and resolution time. These reports can be customized to track key metrics and monitor progress over time. Topic Modeling: Identifying recurring themes and topics within customer conversations.

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Kustomer

JULY 1, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Tom Rieger from NSI , to learn about customer retention through enhancing wait times. The Science of Wait Times and Rewarding Customers. It seems that many companies are handling wait time wrong.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The dashboard visualizes these metrics on a unified platform to provide insight into agent and call center performance. Call Center Dashboard: This dashboard is ideal for businesses handling a high volume of phone calls. It monitors metrics like average talk time, call availability, and cost per call.

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ViiBE Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

On the other, each call must be handled as promptly as possible to ensure that the next caller has a short wait time. Given these opposing demands, how can a center ensure that agents handle each call as efficiently as possible? A classic call center metric to measure this is the Average Handle Time (AHT).

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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. Enable real-time insights and responses Workforce planning doesnt end with the creation of the schedule. And if you can measure it, you can improve it.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

However, benefits extend to other contact center metrics as well. Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT). If screen pops improve the AHT, then they also in turn will have a positive impact on the wait time.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” These metrics can be planned – and checked for quality – by comparing them to your existing agent metrics.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. But, how is the Average Handling Time (AHT) calculated? What is the Average Handling Time (AHT) for Contact Centers?

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Comm100

APRIL 28, 2021

Here are the top six metrics that you can use to analyze the success of your support team. With 45% of companies using NPS as the top measure of CX success, it is a key metric for any live chat customer support team. Average resolution time. These can be timed and appropriately factored into the overall number.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” These metrics can be planned – and checked for quality – by comparing them to your existing agent metrics.

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rethinkCX

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Reduce customer wait times and enhance issue resolution speed. Track and Optimize Performance Metrics Customer Satisfaction (CSAT): Measure customer happiness post-interaction. Average Handle Time (AHT): Optimize call duration for efficiency. Balance workloads for improved agent performance.

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Comm100

MAY 28, 2020

Here are a few things to look for when studying this metric: • How many chats are agents accepting as opposed to rejecting or passing to other agents? If it’s high, you may need to add staff during peak busy times. It can be measured as follows: Amount of live chats per month x Average Handle Time. Number of chats.

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Talkdesk

MAY 14, 2019

Knowing how long it takes to answer customer calls can help you answer that question, and Average Wait Time has become a contact center key performance indicator for just that reason. What is Call Center Average Wait Time? This is also known as Abandonment Rate , another important call center metric.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Call centers predict future call volumes and other metrics so demand can be better met and good service levels can be maintained with optimized resources. Average Handle Time Average handle time (AHT) is a key metric measuring customer interaction duration.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Studies have shown that customers are willing to wait a little longer than expected – but anything beyond that and they can become extremely dissatisfied. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times. We’ve listed the ten we find most valuable below.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

This article will teach you how to measure an agent’s performance and other important customer service metrics. Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s are metrics used to measure employee performance and change from industry to industry. Here are the five KPIs that we will focus on: Average Handle Time.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Boost CX and operational efficiency with the right set of metrics and smart additions to your contact center tech stack. According to Gartner, 82% of companies will allow employees to work remotely at least some of the time, while nearly 50% of companies plan to make remote work permanent. Abandonment rate. Cost per contact.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course. There are many call center metrics you can measure, but only a few KPIs that you will want to monitor over a period of time. So how can you balance the need for operational efficiency with meeting customer expectations?

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Kayako

MARCH 29, 2019

No matter how stellar your customer support metrics are today, there’s always something you can do to drive them even higher. If that information changes, be proactive about letting customers know and updating your availability and average wait times across your web properties. Train and Empower Your Reps.

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Kayako

AUGUST 18, 2015

Calculate non-ticket time. If you simply take a 40 hour work week and divide it by AHT ( average handle time ) you’ll be underestimating the resource time you need to get through tickets. This leads to higher wait times for customers, and longer work days for agents. Average Handle Time.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This was critical to delivering immersive customer experiences, which increase loyalty and improve metrics such as Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) and customer satisfaction (CSAT). Use Next-Gen AI Reduce Handle Time and Service Cost. Decreased average handle time by 10 percent. Saving over $300,00 per year.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

Given the current state of technology, your strategic goals must now go beyond improving metrics. Customer Experience will be the primary focus for successful operations in 2019 but is that “unwavering commitment to better CX” controlled by smaller metrics that don’t have a big effect on the experience as a whole?

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Seaton CX

MAY 24, 2023

We’re obsessed with metrics. Despite our obsession with metrics, we aren’t acting on them effectively. He faced a difficult challenge: improving project turnaround times. By incentivizing programmers to achieve a metric-based target, Chad created unintended consequences. That’s Goodhart’s Law.)

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Uniphore

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Combined with long wait times for assistance, high amounts of effort to get issues resolved and questions answered, and a lack of empathy and understanding on the part of stressed agents, member experiences aren’t living up to their expectations for an easy, convenient, and empathetic interaction. Improved member satisfaction.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

The effectiveness of customer service teams can be gauged by call center performance metrics. In order to manage customer service and workforce effectively, management teams need more detailed metrics. Call center performance metrics include customer satisfaction, handle time, call volume, and costs.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

The effectiveness of customer service teams can be gauged by call center performance metrics. In order to manage customer service and workforce effectively, management teams need more detailed metrics. Call center performance metrics include customer satisfaction, handle time, call volume, and costs.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The metrics that are appropriate for your organization will serve as your compass. Before defining your Agent performance metrics, define your contact center goals Analyzing a KPI only because the competition does it is pointless. What are the right call center agent performance metrics to monitor?

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Forbes, call center metrics are the data harvested from all the solutions used to operate a call center, such as call center management (CCM) and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. Metrics and KPIs in a call center can range from tracking the time agents spend on a task to the number of calls they take per hour.

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BlueOcean

MAY 5, 2016

At Blue Ocean, we’re all about metrics. But beyond average handle times, wait times, first resolution ratios and other equally valuable KPIs, we recognize that data doesn’t always reveal the whole picture of customer experience. In fact, one of their longest recorded calls was eight hours !

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Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

If you get this far, enter the dreaded wait time; “Your call is important to us. Your approximate wait time is 16 minutes.” If you speak too soon, you’ll hear; “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that response, please try again.”. Please stay on the line and your call will be answered in the order in which it was received.

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Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked. For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Why do metrics matter?

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

There were four insights in particular that stood out to me in the webinar: Lesson 1: Think outside of the box when it comes to call center metrics. Like many call centers, SpotHero measures and tracks common call center metrics such as service level, average wait time and average handle time.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions. Look at schedule adherence and schedule compliance metrics. Are your agents engaged?

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