4 Ways CC AGENTS Are Adapting to Remote Work

6 Smart Reasons to Offer Remote Work in Your Contact Center

Here’s an alarming statistic: More than half (56%) of contact center agents say they’d think about leaving their jobs if they couldn’t work remotely. Our research study of contact center agents and managers has revealed a significant conflict: While most agents strongly prefer remote work, nearly half of the contact centers plan to bring employees…

3 No-Fail Remote Workforce Training Techniques Top Contact Centers Use

3 No-Fail Remote Workforce Training Techniques Top Contact Centers Use

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Whether your contact center is remote, hybrid, or moving back to the office full-time, getting agent performance right means unlocking the potential of every employee, every day. While…

Five Coaching Tips For Contact Center Agents that Work

Five Coaching Tips For Contact Center Agents that Work

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…

5 Ways Contact Center Capacity Planning Needs to Change in 2023

5 Ways Contact Center Capacity Planning Needs to Change in 2023

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…

What is Workforce Engagement Management? (And Why it Matters)

What is Workforce Engagement Management? (And Why it Matters)

As one of the newest terms to enter the contact center space, workforce engagement management (WEM) is much more than a simple change in the words we use. WEM suites are an evolutionary shift — beyond workforce optimization — brought about by the need to take customer service operations to the next level by placing…

Why Sweaty Betty Doesn’t Sweat Quality Management

Why Sweaty Betty Doesn’t Sweat Quality Management

Born and bred in the heart of London, Sweaty Betty, the women’s activewear company, was forced to navigate COVID-19 restrictions on three different continents. Having expanded beyond the UK to New York and Hong Kong, the company had to quickly pivot with pandemic lockdowns in place from brick-and-mortar retail to mostly e-commerce. The company’s contact…

7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

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…

How Gamification Can Help Call Centers Operate More Efficiently

How Gamification Can Help Call Centers Operate More Efficiently

At Playvox, we believe that gamification is just using data in a useful and smart way to drive people’s behaviors for the better. You’re probably familiar with one of the most famous examples: the gamification of physical movement in Just Dance, a video game that encourages players to imitate an animated dancer on the screen….

Why We Use AI in Playvox WFM (and How It Improves Contact Center Metrics)

Why We Use AI in Playvox WFM (and How It Improves Contact Center Metrics)

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. Compounding the issue is that unpredictable events — from unexpected sales growth or…