Call Center Workforce Management Principles Questions and Answers Flashcards
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What is the purpose of intraday management in workforce management?
Answer: To make real-time adjustments to staffing and schedules as conditions change throughout the day
Intraday management involves monitoring real-time conditions and making immediate adjustments to schedules, breaks, or overtime to match actual demand.
What does occupancy rate measure in a call center environment?
Answer: The percentage of available time agents spend handling calls or doing after-call work versus waiting for calls
Occupancy rate is the percentage of time agents spend actively handling contacts or completing after-call work compared to their total available time.
Why is it important to create multiple scheduling scenarios when building workforce plans?
Answer: To account for variability in call volumes, absenteeism, and unexpected events
Multiple scenarios help planners prepare for best-case, worst-case, and most-likely situations, ensuring the center can adapt to different demand conditions.
What role does average handle time play in workforce management calculations?
Answer: It is a key input for calculating how many agents are needed to meet service level targets
Average handle time, combined with call volume and service level targets, is a critical input for staffing calculations that determine how many agents are needed.
What is the difference between schedule adherence and schedule conformance?
Answer: Adherence tracks whether agents do the right activity at the right time, while conformance tracks whether agents work the total scheduled minutes
Schedule adherence measures if agents perform assigned activities at scheduled times, while conformance measures whether agents work the correct total duration regardless of timing.
Which workforce management practice helps reduce the negative impact of unexpected call volume spikes?
Answer: Maintaining a pool of cross-trained agents or voluntary overtime lists that can be activated quickly
Having cross-trained agents or voluntary overtime lists provides flexible capacity that can be deployed quickly when unexpected volume spikes occur.