ByRohit Rakkar
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There’s a lot riding on your contact center schedule. Does it have enough coverage for each channel? Does it meet your agents’ needs? Does it have the right tasks at the right times? Will customers get service in the time they expect? Even when you get it all set, making sure agents stick to your…
ByPlayvox Team
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During the global pandemic, customers massively turned to digital communications, and, according to consumer studies, this change is here to stay. While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences…
ByNikki Quinn
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The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers at the best of times. During a recession, it could be the difference between survival and failure. Workforce management (WFM) continues to be one of the most important contact center productivity tools. By optimizing the use…
ByMercer Smith
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Every single support leader has either just finished a significant tagging overhaul or is slowly coming to realize that they need to do one. Tags can be the bane of many support teams’ existences — especially if they do the process manually. That said, tags can also be one of the most significant sources of…
ByRohit Rakkar
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WFM scheduling can easily be thought of as something you do to benefit your customer experience, but it’s so much more than that. Effective scheduling is also a way to accommodate your customers and your agents. And, you can reduce turnover just by being more considerate of your agents’ needs. What Is WFM Scheduling? WFM…
ByPlayvox Team
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Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive. Agent…
ByMeg Monk
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Donuts in the breakroom, water cooler talk, lunch chats with teammates—they’re the little things that make going back to work on a Monday more bearable. For your remote agents, however, it’s often all work with little reward. In addition to feeling the mental and emotional weight of consumer-facing jobs, remote contact center agents are experiencing…
ByEricka Aguilar
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On June 1, 2021, SoFi became a publicly-traded company on the Nasdaq Global Market (Nasdaq). Just over six months later, on January 18, 2022, SoFi was granted a national bank charter. This period of high-stakes decisions and operational scrutiny required a clear and accurate view into many things, including SoFi’s Member Service Teams quality assurance…
ByKristyn Emenecker
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If the last 24 months have taught us anything, it’s that long-term capacity planning is in dire need of an overhaul. Our world is dynamic. Business is dynamic. And hiring is dynamic. In the dynamic world of customer support and service, capacity planning, or the process of long-term forecasting and planning for staffing needs, can’t…
ByCarver Matheidas
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Last week was the Channel Partners Conference and Expo (CPC) in Las Vegas and the 25th anniversary of this event did not disappoint. In fact, the bright lights and neon that are the hallmarks of Las Vegas were an appropriate backdrop for this year’s conference. The mood among exhibitors and attendees could only be described…