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This survey may be used by Centers which predominantly handle one channel (e.g. inbound telephone transactions) as well as Multi Chan-nel, or Blended, Contact Centers which support more than one channel, such as inbound calls, e-mail, web chat, social media, postal mail, or out-bound contacts. Contacts may be with either external or internal customers.
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Industry Sectors:Select the Industry that best matches your contact center.
First Name: *
E-mail Address: *
Contact Center Name: *
Contact Center City: *
Contact Center Zip Code: *
Phone Number: *
Company Website: *
Contact Center Country: *
Contact Center State: *
Contact Center Street Address: *
Company Name: *
Last Name: * * Required
BenchmarkPortal Senior Consultant Name: BenchmarkPortal Relationship Manager Name:
Full Time Agents
Total Number of Full Time Agents: *Full Time Agents
Full-time is usually 40 hours a week. If your center uses a different measurement for full-time that is ok. We are only looking for the number of full-time employees.
Part Time Agents
Total Number of Part Time Agents: *Part Time Agents
Part-time is usually less than 36 hours a week. If your center uses a different measurement for part-time that is ok. We are only looking for the number of part- time employees.
Select the Channels that Your Agents Support
Inbound Calls
Outbound Calls
Web Chat
Social Media
Other Contact Channel Functions
Postal Mail
Fax
Contact Center Agents may support a single caller contact channel or many channels. Please identify and/or describe all of the contact channels that your Agents regularly handle in the section below.
If your center performs more than one type of outbound call or the majority of the interactions takes place in the outbound channel, you should take our Outbound Contact Center Survey.
Only provide other functions that are contact related and not one of the already established channels. DO NOT INCLUDE activites like breaks, training, meetings, or meals.
Describe Other
Describe Other
Follow Up To Inbound
Dispatch Service Calls
Other Outbound Calls
On average, a full-time agent works approximately 250 shifts per year. However, the number of shifts worked by part-time agents may actually be more or less than this, depending upon the average length of shifts and numbers of shifts worked per year.
Please Provide the Following Shift Information
Average paid shift length Full Time in hours: (incl. lunch & breaks)
Hour Shifts
Average paid shift length Part Time in hours: (incl. lunch & breaks)
Hour Shifts
How many shifts per year for full-time agents:
Shifts Per Year
How many shifts per year for part-time agents:
Shifts Per Year
Full Time paid time for breaks and meal(s) in minutes:
Minutes
Part Time paid time for breaks and meal(s) in minutes:
Minutes
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This represents how closely an agent adheres to his/her detailed work schedule.
Average agent adherence in percent:
%This is a representing how often an agent is NOT absent from work due to an unplanned absence.
Average agent attendance in percent:
%
Promotional Turnover:%
All Other Turnover:%
Annual Percentage Turnover Full-time Agents:
%
Group Total
Total must equal 100%%
Agent Turnover / Attendance
Agents
Ratio of agents to supervisors (span of control):Supervisor:
Please provide the total turnover percentage for full time agents. This would be something less than 100%. The Promotional and All Other Turnover needs to equal 100%. Example 15% total turnover 80% promotional 20% All Other.
Occupancy
Average Occupancy%
The percentage of total paid hours of an Agent’s shift during which the Agent is logged in to the ACD or other technology and is available to handle inbound phone, outbound phone, e-mail, chat and other productive work (white mail or back office work), divided by the total scheduled hours at work.
Utilization
Average Utilization%
The percentage of the Agents’ shift engaged in productive work. For telephone only this is the percentage of logged-in time during which the Agent is in active telephone mode (involving talk time, hold time and after-call work time). For multi-channel include all other channel work that is tracked.
Inbound Calls:
%
Outbound Calls:%
Fax:%
Responded to Web Chat:
%
Responded to E-mail:
%
Postal Mail:
%
Other:
%
Responded to Social Media:
%
Group Total Total must equal 100%
%
Group Total Total must equal 100%
%
What percentage of contacts are business to business:
%
What percentage of contacts are business to consumer:
%
How Agents Spend Their Time Please provide the percent of time your agents are dedicated in each channel. The total of the group should equal 100%
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Percentage of Total Budget AllocationHuman Resources – All Salary, Benefits, etc.:
%
Facilities, Furniture & Fixtures:
%
Corporate Allocations and Overhead:
%
Other:
%
Human Resources - Recruiting, Screening, Training:
%
Communications Network:
%
Technology (incl. Telephony Platform) :
%
Annual BudgetCenters Annual Budget: (actual or best estimate)
$
Group Total Total must equal 100%
%
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yrStarting Hourly Wage:
$Average Hourly Wage:
$
Breakdown of Total Contacts HandledPlease identify the contact types that your agents regularly handle during the course of their shift and the estimated time they spend for each identified contact type. Estimated percentages should total 100%. The form provides you a running total for your convenience.
General Customer Inquiries:
%
Technical Support to External Customers :
%
Internal Help Desk:
%
Complaint / Customer Recovery:
%
Order Taking and Order Tracking:
%
Sales Calls:
%
Billing and Collections:
%
Re-Directing Inbound Calls:
%
Other:
%
Group Total
Total must equal 100%%
Describe Other
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Inbound Calls
On average, what percent of Inbound Calls were abandoned:%This is the percentage of calls that were connected to the ACD, but that were disconnected
by the caller before reaching an agent, or before completing a process within an IVR.
Volume of Inbound Calls handled by a live agent:yrThese are the total number of unique inbound calls received in a given year by the center that
are answered by your Contact Center Agents.
Volume of Inbound Calls handled to completion in your IVR:yrThese are the total number of inbound calls received in a given year by the center that are
completed within your IVR.
How many Inbound Calls are offered to your contact center annually: Calls offered is the total number of calls you received over the last 12 months. This includes calls handled and abandoned.
yr
Average talk time (ATT) in MINUTES (includes hold time):minThis is the sum total of agent time in talk mode, divided by the total number of
calls handled by agents.
Average after call work time (ACWT) in MINUTES:minThis is the total time agents spend performing follow-up work after disconnecting from the caller,
divided by the total number of calls handled by agents.
Average time in queue (or delay) in SECONDS:secThis is the average wait time that a caller endured waiting for an agent to answer the telephone
after being placed in the queue by the ACD.
Average auxiliary (Aux) time in percent:%This is the average amount of time per shift, in percent, that an agent is logged into an Aux state.
This should include all authorized off-line time and no time engaged with calls or contacts.
Average time before abandoning in SECONDS :secThis is the average amount of time a customer waits in queue before abandoning.
Average caller hold time in SECONDS while on phone with an agent:secThe sum total of all hold time, divided by the number of calls placed on hold for the same time.
Average Cost Per Inbound Call: $
Calls resolved on first call in percent (FCR):%This is the percentage of calls that were completely resolved during the course of the first inbound
call initiated by the customer, and therefore do not require a call back.
Percent of calls transferred by an agent:%The total number of calls that were transferred by agents (due to their inability to properly handle the
call for whatever reason) divided by the total number of unique calls handled by agents.
Percent of calls put on hold by the agent: %This is the total average percentage of calls that agents put on hold while the agents performed
certain tasks that required the caller to wait on hold.
Average speed of answer (ASA) in seconds.: This is the total answer time (ring time and queue time) divided by the total number of calls answered during the target period.
sec
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Average after call work time per Outbound Call in minutes: min
Average cost per Outbound Call: $
yr
Average talk time per Outbound Call in minutes: min
Average annual agent completed Outbound Calls:This is the total number of Outbound Phone calls generated by your agents annually.
Outbound Call Metrics
E-mail Metrics
Average annual volume of E-mail handled by agents:
Volume of E-mail handled by auto-response : yr
Average speed of answer in HOURS (use decimal if necessary): hr
Average total handle time per E-mail session in MINUTES:min
Average first-contact E-mail resolution rate in PERCENT: %
yr
This is the total time including after work time to process an E-mail transaction.
Social Media Metrics
Average annual volume of Social Media sessions handled by agents: yr
Average agent response time in HOURS:
Average total handle time per Social Media session in MINUTES minThis is the total time including after work time to process a Social Media session.
This is the average time to respond to an E-mail.
Average cost per E-mail: $
Average cost per Social Media: $
hr
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Web Chat Metrics
Average annual volume of Web Chats handled: yr
Average speed of answer in SECONDS (use decimal if necessary): sec
Average first-contact Web Chat resolution rate in PERCENT: %
Average total handle time per Web Chat session in MINUTES: minThis is the total time including after work time to process a web chat transaction
Average cost per Web Chat: $
Postal Mail
Average annual volume of Postal Mail transactions handled: yr
Average total handle time per Postal Mail transaction in MINUTES:minThis is the total time including after work time to process a White Mail.
Average cost per Postal Mail: $
Fax
Average annual volume of Fax transactions handled: yr
Average total handle time per Fax transaction in MINUTES:minThis is the total time including after work time to process a Fax.
Average cost per Fax: $
Other
Average annual volume of Other Transactions handled: yr
Average total handle time per Other Transaction in MINUTES:minThis is the total time including after work time to process the Other Transaction.
Average cost per Other: $
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Customer Satisfaction
Agent Satisfaction
Customer Satisfaction Percentage Score
Agent Satisfaction Percentage Score
Contact center has a formal mechanism for gathering agent feedback:
On average, in the past 90 days, to the question, “Overall, how satisfied were you with your experience,” what percentage of your customers gave you the following scores:
On average, in the past 90 days, to the question, “Overall, how satisfied are you with your position,” what percentage of your agents gave you the following scores:
Agents represented by a labor union:
Customer / Agent Satisfaction
Contact center has a formal customer satisfaction collection process:
Yes No
Yes No Yes No
Primary method used to collect caller feedback on their call experience:
After Call IVR Surveys Follow-up Postal MailOtherFollow-up Outbound
Follow-up E-mail
Very Dissatisfied%
Dissatisfied%
Neutral%
Satisfied%
Very Satisfied%
Very Dissatisfied%
Dissatisfied%
Neutral%
Satisfied%
Very Satisfied%
Group Total Total must equal 100%
%
Group Total Total must equal 100%
%
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Technology Platform
Technology
Center CTI-enabled:
Center utilizes an automatic dialer:
Do you use VOIP:
PBX
ACD
DTMF (Touchtone)
Speech Enabled
Natural Language
Directed Language
Cloud Based / Hosted
Other
Other
Cloud Based / Hosted
Call routing and distribution system your center uses:
Select the ACD vendor you use:
Type of voice self-service application (IVR) your center uses:
Technology Platforms
Yes No Yes No
Yes No
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ATTHosted-NortelAlcatelAspectAvayaCiscoFive 9Global LucentI3InContactLive VoxNortelPanasonicSBC8-8 ImportOther
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