If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. Due to the pandemic, we’re experiencing an unusual dynamic in the labor market right now. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.4% in July 2021, higher than pre-pandemic levels, yet the news is full of stories about businesses of all sizes…
At Playvox, we believe that gamification is just using data in a useful and smart way to drive people’s behaviors for the better.
Quality assurance and monitoring is a tough, but necessary part of operating contact centers for consistently high customer experience at scale. Quality scorecard monitoring ensures customer service standards are met and exceeded using an adapted set of metrics to measure agents’ performance. But once the data is gathered, what are the next steps? How do…
At Playvox, we prioritize what matters most to our customers — just like you do in your contact center! From quality management to workforce management, we strive to put not only the best, but also the most efficient and effective product on the market. That’s why our recent G2 rankings are really meaningful: people who…
Making optimal use of your contact center workforce is one of the biggest challenges for any contact center leader. Balancing the needs of your company, your customers, and your agents is a time-consuming, stressful effort — especially if you’re doing it manually.
Contact center performance management is led by an operations manager who is dedicated to improving the engagement of their agents. It requires a toolkit of quality monitoring, coaching, gamification, and most importantly, a top-tier workforce management system. With the right workforce management tools, you will be equipped to boost your contact center’s success — and…
Managing a customer service operation is never easy. Especially now. Empowering agents and satisfying customers, all while maintaining exceptional levels of quality assurance, is nothing short of a juggling act. How do you keep up the act when you’re asked to tackle more and more each day?
How to Know if You Need a Workforce Engagement Management Solution: Answer These 12 Questions A spring 2021 article on SHRM references the turnover “tsunami” that’s on the horizon, given that more than half of employees surveyed say they’ll look for a new job in the next year. With turnover rates for contact centers already…
The contact center industry is full of specialized terminology, with many contact centers having a jargon all their own. It’s a challenge to keep track of every individual term and its definitions, so we put together a comprehensive glossary of the most frequently used and difficult-to-define words that contact center professionals rely on to make…
The phrase “SOC 2 Type II compliance” may sound complex and technical. But it’s actually an important credential that lets you know if a vendor is truly committed to information security.