Since the dawn of man, people have been engaged in a compelling quest to make life easier for themselves. We have instinctively sought ways to accomplish our daily tasks better and more efficiently than we did the day before. When hunting for deer, we discovered …
Workforce Management
Meet the Coach at ACE 2019
Another ACE is upon us! One of the things we love best about our annual conference is the chance to speak with our customers; learning about how you’re using our products, the stories of your successes—and what we can do to help you succeed, if …
Hitting your CX for six this summer
The latest edition of the Cricket World Cup – the showpiece event of this most English of sports – is now approaching its conclusion. Swashbuckling starts, tense finishes and knife-edge contests have been the order of the day, with the semi-finals and final still …
O baseball e o mito da precisão ao se prever a força de trabalho
Yogi Berra não sabia muito sobre contact centers, mas parece que ele teve uma grande visão da primeira fase do processo de planejamento da força de trabalho quando disse: “É difícil fazer previsões, especialmente sobre o futuro.” O fato é que o complexo processo de …
El béisbol y el mito de la precisión en los pronósticos de WFM
Yogi Berra no sabía mucho sobre centros de contacto, pero parece haber tenido una gran visión de la primera fase del proceso de planificación de la fuerza de trabajo al haber dicho que: “Es difícil hacer predicciones, especialmente sobre el futuro”. Lo cierto …
Lifting the sickness burden: it’s not just about illness
It goes without saying that sickness is a burden on any business. If for whatever reason your levels of absence due to sickness are high, you’re constantly under the cosh as a business, scratching around to find people to cover shifts and minimise overall …
Winning the human battle needs closer attention than the technology battle
The evolution of the customer service experience has seen the advent of a host of new ways for customers to interact with a business, with technology such as chatbots and automated self-service options becoming increasingly prevalent. While this transformation is proving to be instrumental in …
According to Customers, Aspect Workforce Management Leads the Pack
The G2 Crowd results are in: Aspect has the highest customer satisfaction rating of all leading WFM solutions.
The growth and popularity of crowd-sourced customer review and recommendations sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor are where consumers go for authentic, unbiased, user-driven information about products and …
Millennials and the Work Ethic
Millennials were born between 1976 and 2001. They are very different from their doting baby boomer parents. Millennials are tech savvy, skilled at multitasking, great at working in teams, and eager to please. They are also accustomed to being pampered both at home and at …
WFM als Chance, auch die Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit zu verbessern
Mit der zunehmenden Verbreitung und stetigen Verbesserung von Self-Service Anwendungen lassen sich einfachere und wiederkehrende Aufgaben automatisiert erledigen. Das wiederum bedeutet, dass die Anfragen, mit denen Kunden sich an die menschlichen Mitarbeiter wenden, komplexer sind, so dass von den Mitarbeitern im Kundenservice insgesamt ein höheres …
Workforce planning in a Gig Economy
While contact center agents might be ready to jump head first into the gig economy, contact center management is a bit more reluctant, and for good reason. Having on-demand customer service agents isn’t as simple as engaging drivers for Uber. Before making the transition to …