We would like to receive some guidance regarding Customer Service or Call Center agents workload, how do you measure your agents workload, what factors do you consider when measuring workload?

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IT Manager in Manufacturinga year ago

When I was involved with call centers we measured their Available Time, plus Call time, plus After Call Work.  We then used a percentage calculation against total time to determine their productive and available time.  It was captured by our switch.

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no titlea year ago

Thank you Mike!! This is useful, a simple way to measure, I like it!

Customer Success Managera year ago

When measuring our agents workload, they align with our SLAs (Service Level Agreements)

- Average Speed to Answer
- Call Handle Time
- First Contact Resolution
- Contact Abandonment

Our QA team provides feedback on how calls are handled, number of interactions, if they troubleshoot or not, or if they ticket and pitch it. 

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no titlea year ago

Great! Thank you! We are following a similar approach!<br><br>

Customer Success Manager in IT Servicesa year ago

Calls per agent - yes, as well as duration of them should be considered. To get an average time spent per agent on the calls and/or per customer.

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HEAD OF SMART APPLICATIONS AND SERVICESa year ago

The short answer is calls per agent per hour or (CPAH). However, the type of your business has a huge impact on the operation. some factors affect the call time such as call complexity, type of call, agent experience and technologies. 10 to 20 CPAH is a good number to keep in mind as an average but again, depends on your specific business. 

-hope that helps!

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no titlea year ago

Absolutely, this is multi variable and completely depend on each industry however I´m taking your inputs as a reference!<br><br>

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