Workforce Management Featured Articles
The Hertfordshire County Council recently announced the selection of Verint's government and public sector portfolio, making the management of governm…
6/20/2019
What is "nesting?" Nesting, sometimes known as the transition stage, is the point at which new call center hires are finished with their classroom tra…
6/18/2019
The use of AI and automation is on the rise in the banking, financial services and insurance sectors. Financial customer service is an ideal fit for a…
6/13/2019
While there are many moving parts to properly managing a workforce, it's the soft skills - the ability to understand and motivate people - that often …
6/13/2019
As older workforce retires and makes way for younger Millennials and Gen Y, even the style in which workforces are being managed is shifting. All of t…
6/7/2019
Most businesses collect and store huge amounts of data as a routine course of action. But often that data sits unanalyzed. A proper WFM solution can p…
6/6/2019
Club Med's use of spreadsheets to schedule its contact center agents and forecast customer service demand levels was outdated and unreliable. The comp…
5/31/2019
Today's workplace is more diverse than ever before. As Baby Boomers transition out of their roles and Gen Y enters, the age range of workers is expans…
5/31/2019
Call centers have become a key focus for businesses when it comes to growth and brand loyalty. Once viewed simply as "cost centers," or a place to man…
5/22/2019
In the contact center, managers spend a great deal of time preventing turnover. Customer turnover, since it costs far more to acquire a new customer t…
5/21/2019
Verint Systems unveiled enhancements to Verint's Desktop and Process Analytics solution, which claims to fundamentally change the nature of work. The …
5/17/2019
Call centers have one of the highest rates of employee turnover in the U.S., at more than double the national rate. This trend may be reversed through…
5/14/2019
The contact center is littered with obstacles. Well, allow me to clarify. Without the proper solutions in place the contact center is littered with ob…
5/10/2019
AI is often viewed as a threat to human jobs, particularly in the call center. But given its limitations, expense and the fact that callers prefer to …
5/10/2019
Verint announced the addition of Anomaly Detection to its suite of VoC solutions. With Anomaly Detection in place, companies can leverage the analytic…
5/1/2019
Providing great customer support is expensive and time-consuming. Many organizations are tempted to cut corners, particularly when their customer chur…
4/30/2019
Burnout is not something to take lightly. From time to time we all need to take a "mental health day" or employ practices to combat the drain from out…
4/30/2019
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs understands text messaging has become a desired communications features and and has added SMS as an option for…
4/29/2019
Call center management is a complex skill honed over years, or even decades, of workforce management, understanding customers, learning systems and ma…
4/23/2019
Contact centers need to ensure the needs of customers and agents are being met in the fleeting era of omnichannel communications and interactions. A d…
4/22/2019
Advanced data analytics capabilities built into a modern workforce management solution could identify, for example, that a particular type of call is …
4/11/2019
The contact center is a difficult place to work. It's a high-pressure environment, it's noisy, it's busy and sometimes tempers get short. Customers ca…
4/4/2019
Once upon a time, "workforce management" was as simple as a time clock, and a lot of manual tabulation by a manager. While keeping track of the hours …
4/2/2019
Contact center managers need to effectively communicate the scope, goals and demands of performance management programs to their agents and staff memb…
3/29/2019
With previous generations of contact center solutions, interpreting the data they generated generally took an analyst or other dedicated full-time per…
3/26/2019
The future of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) is unfolding and holds tremendous promise. But, the path to progress has not been without pitfalls…
3/21/2019
Here are 3 things call centers should focus on now to start improving how they're listening and reacting to customers to drive quality scores.
3/12/2019
Workforce management (WFM) is a collective term for all the processes that a contact center undertakes to ensure it has the right number of representa…
3/11/2019
In the contact center, recruiting and hiring tend to take the lion's share of time and attention. It's easy to forget, therefore, about the importance…
3/6/2019
As contact centers are continually under pressure to improve the customer experience while keeping costs under control, one of the best ways to do so …
3/6/2019
A more holistic, organization-wide approach to data mining an analytics can offset privacy concerns and better benefit companies.
2/27/2019
Your customers don't particularly like talking to you on the phone. Don't take it personally. Don't get us wrong. They may like you, and like your com…
2/25/2019
Workforce management software is a strong way to drive performance in the contact center. In customer service, there's no time to rest on laurels, as …
2/22/2019
If your workforce management leaves a lot to be desired, chances are good you're using an older platform that may not be reflecting today's contact ce…
2/15/2019
At its core, workforce management is about forecasting. It's about predicting the volume of customer contacts (calls, emails, etc.), using those predi…
2/14/2019
Workforce management is for huge companies…right? In small contact centers or support centers, the hairy eyeball of the supervisor should be enough to…
2/7/2019
Establishing communications links between software tools, as well as humans, can help prevent dangerous "team silos" from gaining a foothold in your o…
2/4/2019
Teach your sales and marketing departments to work together, and you'll have more success.
1/31/2019
Most of us love emojis. Those little digital icons that convey love, happiness, anger, sadness, encouragement or revulsion have become integral to our…
1/22/2019
The Workforce Institute at Kronos in its 2019 predictions notes that artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the key trends impacting w…
1/9/2019
Contact centers are becoming more sophisticated in their ability to analyze and act on customer behavior. Speech analytics and workforce optimization …
1/8/2019
Advanced WFM software can create great new efficiencies that lower costs, free people from repetitive work, allow them to focus on more important thin…
1/4/2019
AI is changing how work is done in customer service and contact centers. For example, AI can streamline and improve scheduling in such environments.
12/26/2018
This piece discusses the important role of coaching in professional and organizational growth and success.
12/17/2018
A strategy and a bit of planning can help organizations better manage holiday scheduling and staffing.
12/7/2018
Increased customer service demands at this time of year call for better forecasting, more flexible schedules, and the creation of action plans trigger…
11/29/2018
Organizations should do their best to vet, train, and generally support employees. And when employees fall short of expectations, businesses should co…
11/28/2018
Customer experience is a key driver of loyalty, and lots of things - including employee engagement - contribute to building positive CX.
11/27/2018
Shyft Technologies announced a successful round of funding for it workforce management app. The series A funding totaled $6.5 million led by Madrona V…
11/21/2018
After decades in the shadows, contact centers are emerging as strategic assets and occasionally, market differentiating capabilities.
11/21/2018
Monet Software announced a new release, an integrated solution with Zendesk. The integrated offering introduces the Zendesk portfolio, and an elevated…
11/12/2018
How AI, automation, WFM deliver in the contact center.
11/5/2018
One of the great things about technology today is that it can allow even a small business to operate like a large one. And that holds true of modern w…
10/31/2018
Enterprise Information Management provider, OpenText unveiled the availability of OpenText Qfiniti for Amazon Connect. The self-service, cloud-powered…
10/31/2018
Workforce management makes life easier for help desk and service desk managers, and can provide measurable improvements for these environments and the…
10/23/2018
How to hire, prepare, and continue to improve agent performance and contact center outcomes.
10/18/2018
Workforce management software can allow contact center managers to schedule agents to do a greater variety of tasks. That can serve to keep things mor…
10/17/2018
WFM software available through the cloud makes it fast and easy for remote workers to tap into the contact center resources they need to get the job d…
10/12/2018
Bill Lumbergh showed us what not to do. Here are a few tips on what good managers actually do.
10/4/2018
So what are workforce optimization, workforce management, and analytics? And what are the benefits of such solutions?
10/2/2018
Nest Labs Inc. has alighted on UJET Inc.'s customer service software.
9/28/2018
WFM messaging is an ideal way to get the word out about campaign efforts, company updates, and training logistics. Contact center managers can use mes…
9/20/2018
There are a few other things businesses should look for in their WFO solutions. Here's a quick rundown of some of them.
9/11/2018
Interruption in the workplace is having a major negative impact on productivity. That's according to new research by Kronos Inc.'s The Workforce Insti…
9/10/2018
In the contact center, each interaction serves as an opportunity. Business can build a reputation for exceptional customer service, or conversely beco…
9/7/2018
There are things that people who oversee contact centers can do to ensure their workers spend more time helping customers and less time sitting idle.
9/7/2018
[24]7.ai has imbued its virtual agent AIVA with emotional intelligence. That means the solution can now detect, acknowledge, and respond to user emoti…
8/28/2018
Monet Software today announced an integrated offering with Amazon Connect, the online giant's cloud-based contact center service.
8/27/2018
Artificial intelligence is not perfect. But it's pretty darned good. Just consider the AI assistant Duplex that Google demonstrated in May.
8/23/2018
Workforce management (WFM) software is crucial to creating an environment for success in your call center. Applied appropriately and the results will …
8/17/2018
Most businesses rely on surveys to gauge the opinions and needs of their customers, and many are finding a decline in survey response rates and low re…
8/15/2018
Randstad US unveiled the results of the quarterly Randstad Workmonitor Q2 2018 report, highlighting that 9 in 10 workers prefer a multigenerational wo…
8/8/2018
Speech analytics can make call recording more useful and quality management more impactful.
8/6/2018
It's no secret that industrial industries are being impacted by the aging workforce. In fact, Gartner recently reported this trend as one of the top c…
7/30/2018
Monitoring is key in the contact center. Recording conversations, analyzing and digging into the data to develop best practice for agents is vital to …
7/12/2018
The struggle with call abandonment is not a new occurrence for call centers. People lose patience, and within minutes of sitting on hold enjoying a lo…
7/5/2018
Words matter. So businesses and individuals need to consider their word choices and sentiment when interacting with customers and prospects. They shou…
7/3/2018
Sometimes it's the least sexy applications that drive the most value, and in the world of Industrial IoT, Zebra Technologies has announced an innovati…
6/28/2018
New Israel Ministry of Communications requirements deem communications companies can't keep callers waiting for customer service longer than six minut…
6/20/2018
AI is ideal for helping with simple things like password resets. That can quickly add up to significant cost savings, it says, and work as proof point…
6/19/2018
Monet Software has released a new version of its workforce optimization suite.
6/12/2018
Poor hiring decisions have been known to wreak havoc on businesses, inflicting costs in finances and weakening the community's sense of overall trust …
6/5/2018
To get the best out of the best people, contact centers need to arm agents with the technology they to succeed in their jobs. Solutions like workforce…
6/4/2018
To get the most of our remote employees and contractors, organizations should have a strategy and the right tools in place.
6/1/2018
This story is about the importance of anticipating needs, caring and addressing complaints in a timely manner, listening, and valuing people over proc…
5/23/2018
Call center agents are instructed to always answer the phone with a smile, but beyond first impressions the language used over the course of a custome…
5/21/2018
Kronos Incorporated will collaborate with Microsoft, via the Workforce Dimensions Technology Partner Program, on new solutions for easing workforce ma…
5/16/2018
Teleopti is employing AI that learns from customer data. This machine learning uses dynamic decision trees to allow for the creation and setting of sh…
5/16/2018
Speech analytics can add lots of value and significant return from the customer service department of a contact center. Here, are five key things to e…
5/11/2018
Every time an employee makes an exit, you need to spend more time and money recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and getting new people up to speed. And wh…
5/10/2018
For call center, contact center, and other customer service operations, AI, the cloud, omnichannel communications, and workforce management are key en…
5/4/2018
Workforce management systems make the life of the call center manager far easier, and can add up to happier agents and more satisfied customers.
5/3/2018
Systems that can analyze data from a variety of angles - and even visualize that data - can go a long way in helping organizations better understand w…
4/30/2018
Striving to improve by setting goals, making plans, learning, changing based on that new knowledge, and continually striving to get better and stronge…
4/26/2018
Ring has tapped Aspect Software to provide it with a workforce management solution. Aspect Via will be the exclusive WFM solution for customer service…
4/25/2018
A large part of building loyalty involves customer service. Countless surveys have pointed to how quickly loyalty erodes following a poor customer ser…
4/21/2018
MyEyeDr, a national optometry services provider, has chosen Vonage to provide cloud-based solutions for its 6,000 employees.
4/20/2018
Workforce management software tracks employee time and attendance. But this simple definition of WFM may be deceiving, as WFM solutions do so much mor…
4/10/2018
Call centers spend a lot of time and money on the rotating flux of new hires. Stress overloads and low salaries contribute to high attrition. Last yea…
4/10/2018
In a world that is consistently evolving, management is always looking for tools to enhance business and employee productivity. Customer service is ke…
4/5/2018
