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5 Call Center Trends Transforming Customer Experience in 2025

rethinkCX

By 2025, AI in call centers will dominate with intelligent call routing, matching customers to the best agent or solution based on intent, history, and even tone of voice. Industry forecasts suggest AI routing will cut average wait times by 30% this year alone. Why It Matters Long hold times kill CX.

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Hold queues and smart call routing play a pivotal role. Hold Queues : Ensures calls are answered promptly, minimizing wait times. Smart Call Routing : Directs calls to the most suitable agent based on expertise, language, or past interactions. This increases the likelihood of first-call resolution.

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Call Center Dialer Software: Optimization Best Practices

NobelBiz

Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @ NobelBiz Improved Agent Productivity Long wait times can be a significant challenge for contact centers, causing negative consequences for both agents and customers. To mitigate these issues, many contact centers use dialers to eliminate unwanted wait times.

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Hyper Efficiency: The Next Frontier in Contact Center Operations Management

NobelBiz

The following formula is used to get the AHT (Average Handle Time): the duration of the exchange itself (AHT), the duration of the caller’s wait (MEA), and the duration of the file’s post-call processing (ACW). One way to tackle these agent-related issues is by introducing gamification into the contact center workflow.

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2025 Call Center Productivity Guide: Must-Have Metrics and Key Success Strategies

Calabrio

Measuring Call Center Agent Performance: Key Agent Productivity Metrics While overall contact center productivity is important to track as well, it’s the performance of your agents that ultimately drives results. Average Handle Time (AHT): Tracks the average duration of a customer interaction.