12 Signs Your Contact Center Needs a WEM Solution

12 Signs Your Contact Center Needs a WEM Solution

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…

Workforce Management Terminology: A Comprehensive Guide

Workforce Management Terminology: A Comprehensive Guide

Adherence. AHT. ATA. EWT. FCR. The contact center industry is full of specialized terminology, jargon, and acronyms. Whether you’re an experienced contact center leader or a newly hired call center agent, it’s challenging to learn and keep up with the latest workforce management (WFM) terminology. To help you make sense of your work life (or…

6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

Let’s face it. Spreadsheets were made to manage numbers, not people. For scheduling and managing the complexities of a high-demand agent workforce, spreadsheets do not cut it. In fact, they can be a detriment to the effective operations of your contact center. If you’re struggling with forecasting, scheduling, and monitoring your workforce in real-time, you’re…

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Workforce Management Software: How To Choose The Right One

Workforce management software isn’t exactly a magic pill for contact centers helping to drive business success, but it’s definitely a smart place to start. While strong products will always be essential to the success of large and mid-size businesses, it’s the customer experience that keeps people (and revenue) coming. Contact centers are at the heart…

What is Workforce Management and When Should Your Contact Center Implement It?

What is Workforce Management and When Should Your Contact Center Implement It?

For anyone asking, “What is workforce management?” there’s never been a better time to understand—and turn up—its power to transform and optimize your business. Workforce management is the critical link between today’s top-performing contact centers and thriving brands—across every industry. And it’s increasingly top-of-mind for customer experience leaders who want to help reduce costs and…

7 Essentials to Managing Remote Call Center Agents

7 Essentials to Managing Remote Call Center Agents

People are working remotely more than ever thanks to the proliferation of online productivity, communication tools, and of course, the pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic, 31% of employees worked from home at least part-time. By March 2020, that number grew to 45% and then grew again to 62% by April 2020, according to…

Defining the Most Effective KPIs to Measure Your Business’s Performance

Defining the Most Effective KPIs to Measure Your Business’s Performance

Measuring your business’s performance is an ideal way to determine how well your team’s working and what you can do to deliver customer service you’re truly proud of. After all, customer satisfaction is a key brand differentiator. Your reputation matters! Performance measurement begins with defining your KPIs. The performance KPIs need to be the right…

How Do Performance KPIs Affect Your Strategic Impact Measurements?

How Do Performance KPIs Affect Your Strategic Impact Measurements?

Every business has to develop effective customer service strategies to maximize performance, drive improvements, and achieve ongoing success — and success starts with measuring performance KPIs. As a manager, you should have a clear understanding of your business’s goals, values, and priorities, but building an effective strategy that takes your company’s customer service in exciting…