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 …
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Workforce Management
Smashing the scourge of overtime
Smashing the scourge of overtime
Many a manager and business leader has to deal with the challenge of overtime at some point in their careers. From an employee’s perspective it can be a positive, with those few extra pennies making a difference when staff decide to …
Baseball and The Myth of WFM Forecasting Accuracy
Yogi Berra didn’t know much about contact centers, but he seems to have had great insight into the first phase of the workforce planning process when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. The simple fact is that the complex workforce …
Is Your User Experience a Loser Experience?
Much has been written about the constant change in the expectations consumers have for customer service. From the strongly-worded letter and social media brand shaming to the ever-growing preference to conduct agentless support interactions when/where possible, consumer behavior is a lot like the weather in …
Aspect Via® Workforce Management™ Supporting Amazon Connected Home Vision
Most of us know about Amazon’s acquisition of Ring.com back in February of this year, the second largest acquisition ever made by Amazon, exceeded only by their acquisition of Whole Foods. It’s been a wild ride since Ring’s rejection on Shark Tank back in 2013 …
Aus Abweichungen lernen: Tagessteuerung ist integraler Bestandteil der Personaleinsatzplanung
Workforce Management Software (WFM, Personaleinsatzplanung) wird eingesetzt, um den Personalbedarf für alle Inbound, Outbound, Blended und Back Office Ressourcen einfach und genau zu prognostizieren und den Personaleinsatz bedarfsorientiert zu planen. Aber was, wenn es nicht so läuft wie geplant?
Zur vorausschauenden Planung gehört es, alle relevanten …
Workforce AI: The Driverless Contact Center
Are there any two words that strike more hopeful excitement and visceral fear into the hearts of men and women than “Artificial Intelligence”? We revel in the prospect of robots and software that can shoulder difficult tasks for organizations and human beings as individuals, while …
Aspect Workforce Management Takes to the Cloud
Aspect is taking to the cloud again, and this time they’re taking their 40-year legacy of contact center workforce management with them. With the availability of Aspect Essential and Aspect Via Enterprise cloud-based customer engagement platforms, Aspect is making Via Workforce Management (WFM) available as …
Taking the Workforce Management Cloud Market by Storm
Workforce management is the most fundamental and commonly used of the workforce optimization software components. Historically it’s been an on-premises application, but the past few years have seen some lower functionality WFM solutions delivered from the public cloud. Aspect is about to turn the workforce …
Why You Need to Upgrade Your Aspect WFM System: Workforce Management Excellence, Part III
For decades, Aspect Workforce Management has been ranked among the top 3 solutions available on the market. Pelorus Associates recently published a report confirming that Aspect is, in fact, the #1 provider of workforce management systems world-wide. That distinguished award did not happen by accident. …