Are you considering Workforce Management? Do you have a number of questions that need to be answered first? With a wealth of experience under our belt, we address the most frequently asked questions when it comes to Workforce Management technology.
Our team of consultants are here to help. If you need advice on Workforce Management, whether it be exploring Workforce Management for the first time or upgrading your existing system, get in touch. Our Workforce Management solutions are deployed across some of the largest Contact Centres in the UK, with customers are using our tools to ensure efficiently plan, forecast and schedule the workforce required on a day-to-day or hour-to-hour basis.
Depending on the size of the contact centre, setting up schedules can be far too complex to be handled in a simple spreadsheet, and this is where Workforce Management, with advanced planning and forecasting features, comes in.
This can depend on a number of different variables such as how many agents you have / if you used to use excel/ how flexible your staff can work/ if you are currently under or overstaffed.
Yes. With many Workforce Management solutions, you can use the data from your telephony switch and/or upload data in a set format from a file.
Yes this can definitely be done with a workforce management tool where you can easily build scenarios and compare.
Yes, and this includes push notification for significant schedule changes encouraging flexibility and empowerment for both agents and contact centre supervisors.
Yes, some Workforce Management solutions will not only accurately forecast and schedule your call volumes but will also do the same for other customer contact types such as email and chat.
By entering the below details for example the tool can accurately predict staffing requirements for email and chat customer contact types:
Yes, the tool can schedule agents across different skills and channels within the same day based on where your demand requires it. In addition, proficiency can be built in which reflects the ability of an agent at a given time period.
For example, a new agent will be less proficient on a particular skill than an agent with long tenure.
Yes with Workforce Management solutions you can create forecasts years in advance but publish for let’s say a month only, meaning creating and publishing dates for forecasts can be different.
Yes, some Workforce Management systems have a dedicated real-time module. This means you can tailor alarms to proactively spot issues before they become more significant
Yes, many Workforce Management solutions have a dedicated reporting module. This means you will be able to run reports from site/department/team and agent levels.
Yes, Workforce Management tools mean agents can book holidays or overtime requests by the mobile app or desktop. As an alternative, requests can also be fully/part automated or manually approved.
Yes and you can isolate certain activity – i.e.: choose not to optimise (move) any coaching sessions as you don’t want them altered for that specific day.
Yes you can build in not only the volume but the profile of when you are likely to reach these volumes – I.e.: a spike in the morning or drops in the evening.
Yes based on rules set up this can be automated or the decision for approval sent to the planner.
Source: https://www.businesssystemsuk.co.uk/blog/2018/08/13/workforce-management-faqs/
Publish Date: August 13, 2018 |
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