Less Than a Fifth of Contact Centres use a Hosted WFM for Scheduling Staff

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Written by Jo Robinson

According to our poll, just 19% of contact centres use hosted WFM’s to aid the staff scheduling process.

Whilst spreadsheets were the most common methods of calculating staff numbers, 11% still use either pen and paper or a white board.

Poll – What Systems do you use for Scheduling Staff? – answers

Pen and paper – 9%
White board – 2%
Spreadsheets – 55%
WFM system (on premise) – 47%
Hosted WFM – 19%

Source: Call Centre Helper webinar: Creative Scheduling Strategies     Sample size – 113     Date: September 2013

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Jo Robinson has worked at Call Center Helper since 2007. She started off as News Editor and is currently Operations Manager. Jo quality checks a large number of the articles on Call Centre Helper, along with caring for our customers, managing the eblast programme and sponsorship of our annual benchmarking survey.

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