In our call center, our managers have used information exported out of CMS to gather certain statistics/characteristics of a good agent. They have come up with a scorecard system, that they present to the agent on a monthly basis to give them feedback about how they are doing. We used to have the same problem here, but with the scorecard system, they are promoted/demoted based on their scorecard and their ability to improve their score. It affects their hourly pay, bonuses, call center prizes, their friday pot luck lunch day, free soda pop day and so forth. Agents do not want to have their priviledges taken away because they didn't handle their phones in a responsible and adult manner. Of coarse you will find the exception to the rule, but our people know they are being watched by the CMS system and they do not want to have anything that would jeopardize their jobs or their freebees.
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