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City Furniture Optimizes Schedules and Onboards New Hires

Workforce Manager: Optimizing Schedules and Onboarding New Hires

January 31, 2020

Onboarding a new employee is a rite of passage. We all go through it several times throughout our career. Personally, I’ve experienced pretty much every onboarding experience across the spectrum. From, “here’s your desk, good luck,” to a very thorough multi-day training. There’s a balance of course, onboarding from the point of view of the new hire is incredibly overwhelming. You’re dropped into a foreign environment and tasked with learning people, process, systems and culture as fast as humanly possible. From the point of view of your organization, there is an incredible opportunity when you’re onboarding a new employee. It’s a time when they are not yet incumbered by the day to day operation of your team.

How AI Can Help You Reduce Forecasting Inaccuracies

January 30, 2020

You probably already know that forecasting is one of the contact center’s most critical functions. It enables short- and long-term planning, allows organizations to prepare for future demand and connects customers with the right agents at the right time. And in an age when contact centers are constantly adapting to new channels, new agent skillsets and rising customer expectations, getting forecasting right is more challenging than ever before.