How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attribution

How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attrition 

Contact center agent attrition can be as high as 38% — and it’s not hard to understand why.  An agent’s work is frequently monotonous, stressful — thanks to angry customers taking out their frustrations on agents — and overwhelming with too many interactions to handle. It can be a thankless, unappealing job, pushing employees to…

Improve Contact Center Agent Productivity With WFM Software

Improve Contact Center Agent Productivity With WFM Software

The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving agent productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers in 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 agent productivity tools. By optimizing…

How Support Tagging Boosts Product-Support Collaboration

How Support Tagging Boosts Product-Support Collaboration

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…

5 WFM Scheduling Tips To Make The Most Of Your Agents (and Improve Efficiency!)

5 WFM Scheduling Tips To Make The Most Of Your Agents (and Improve Efficiency!)

The customer experience (CX) benefits of effective Workforce Management (WFM) scheduling are clear. And, to get even more out of your WFM solution, leverage these five WFM scheduling tips and start the new year with positive momentum for lasting CX improvement. Done right, WFM scheduling also can be a critical strategy for boosting your customer…

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 Proven Strategies To Help Remote Contact Center Agents Feel Valued

5 Proven Strategies To Help Remote Contact Center Agents Feel Valued

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…

Big Changes Need Big Data 

Big Changes Need Big Data 

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…

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…