When efficiency is your focus, many organizations implement strategies with the assumption that workforce management (WFM) should be entirely separate from customer-focused considerations. In fact, the customer experience is impacted not only by the front lines of your contact center workforce but by individuals at …
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Workforce Management
Workforce Management: It’s More Than You Think
On the surface, workforce management (WFM) can feel like a tough nut to crack. It’s not always well understood because while it performs the imperative labor management functions, agents and supervisors only have the insight into a small amount of that functionality. Primarily, only the …
Infographic: 5 Time-Intensive Tasks Your Workforce Management Software Should be Doing for You
You know how it goes, we all have so much to do and there never seems to be enough time to get it all done. It’s frustrating. But there are some ways to get some time back, especially when it comes to scheduling, forecasting and …
Scheduling for the Modern Contact Center: The Secret is WFM
There is something utterly satisfying about a schedule. Schedules for our daily lives make us more efficient, help us prioritize, help us become more proficient and most importantly, saves us time, our most valuable resource. In the world of workforce management, those same benefits hold …
ACE 2019 Recap: Aspect Master Program
If you missed ACE 2019 last week you may have been suffering from some serious #FOMO (fear of missing out).
In addition to amazing insight in our general sessions, the networking opportunities, the lobster tails—seriously, there were lobster tails—we had a new addition for breakout sessions.
Debuting …
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 …