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The benefits of agent engagement are obvious to any contact center manager or supervisor. Agents who are engaged align their own personal goals with those of the company they work for.

If there is one single perk that contact centers can offer to agents to recruit and retain staff, it’s flexible scheduling. With the ability to work from nearly anywhere, agents want to fit their work schedule to their lives, not the other way around.

The events of the past couple of years took a strange, unexpected toll on the labor market. During the lockdown, unemployment was high, and workers clung to their jobs. However, now that things are getting (somewhat) back to normal, a significant percentage of American workers have decided not to go back to work.

Raise your hand if you owe a few contact center agents apologies for how you treated them before you worked in customer experience.

Simply put, applying customer empathy means understanding and integrating your customer’s expectations. And lucky for you, we’ve outlined what that looks like with help from three industry experts in the eBook, “Cultivating a future-proof customer journey strategy.” Get your copy now.

Check out the “Contact Center Leader’s Guide to Gamification” eBook for more tips and tricks. Whether you’re just embarking on your gamification journey, or trying to take your program to the next level, this eBook will help you build a sustainable gamification program that motivates all your employees - from your top performers to your brand new agents!

There’s a direct link between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Happy employees equal happy customers. Unhappy employees lead to unhappy customers. It’s not quite as simple as that, but as a generalization it’s not too far off. Employees are the driving factor behind customer satisfaction. Employee interactions set the tone for a positive or negative customer experience. When employees aren’t happy at work, their interactions with customers can, and almost always will, suffer. Over the course of time, this can have serious repercussions for a business.