Webchat Service Quality Becomes Compromised After Two Sessions

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According to the results from our poll, the majority (45%) of contact centre professionals agree that two webchat sessions is the maximum any one agent can handle before service quality is compromised.

Many participants (39%) also argued that they believe it is three sessions, but there was only a low percentage who believed that the quality was comprised after one or four calls, with no-one asserting that quality can be sustained after five.

Poll – “In your opinion, how many chat sessions can one advisor be working on before service quality is compromised?” – answers

1 Session – 9%
2 Sessions – 45%
3 Sessions – 39%
4 Sessions – 7%
5+ Sessions – 0%

Source: Call Centre Helper Webinar Poll – Best Practices for Voice, Email and Webchat Sample size – 122 Date: September 2015

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Megan Jones

Megan is Editor at Call Centre Helper. She first started working for Call Centre Helper in 2013 and has held a number of roles - News Editor, Features Editor and now Editor.

She has visited a large number of award winning contact centres such as Tesco, Lego, BT and AA. She is well respected in the industry.

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