Agent Attrition Contact Center: The Week Two Cliff
Day eleven, no coaching, a first QA score with no context. New-hire attrition starts at week two — how to see it coming and stop it.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
Older posts on conversation quality, coaching, AI in customer service and the metrics customer-facing teams run on.
Day eleven, no coaching, a first QA score with no context. New-hire attrition starts at week two — how to see it coming and stop it.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
After the bots went live, easy calls vanished and every remaining call got harder. 12 months of banking data on what it means for QA and staffing.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
A regional bank called speech analytics a failure after 14 months — with a perfect vendor scorecard. The 7 signals they never looked for.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
Vendors pitch 92.8% accuracy — why that number tells you nothing about QA quality, and what to measure instead.
John Iosifov · 9 min read
Most 'AI-powered' speech analytics is a glorified search engine. What keyword spotting misses — and what real conversation intelligence sees.
John Iosifov · 7 min read
Most escalations are decided in the first 90 seconds of the original call — not by the resolution authority of your senior agents.
John Iosifov · 7 min read
76% of customers want text, images, and video in one support thread. Most centers make them start over. The cost of the gap.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
Most agent assist tools surface recommendations 11 seconds too late. By then, the customer has already heard the wrong answer. Here's how to close the lag gap.
John Iosifov · 6 min read
A 1,000-seat center at 40% attrition burns $16M/year on replacements — and most agents didn't quit because of customers. How QA drives it.
John Iosifov · 8 min read
Your CSAT score averages away your worst customers. DSAT measures dissatisfaction directly — and predicts churn 3x more accurately. Here's how to use it.
John Iosifov · 6 min read
CRM notes from sales reps don’t match what happened on calls — often by significant margins. The pipeline forecast built on that data is fiction.
Ender Turing Team · 4 min read
Multi-site contact centers run “calibrated” QA programs that produce different scores for identical performance.
Ender Turing Team · 5 min read
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