Thomson Reuters Reduces Average Call Time By Nearly 2 Minutes
3%
POTENTIAL SAVINGS
OF UP TO 3% OF BUDGET
OF UP TO 3% OF BUDGET
1.54
MINUTES –
REDUCED AVERAGE CALL TIME
REDUCED AVERAGE CALL TIME
1.5
REDUCED NUMBER OF
CALL HOLDS PER CALL
CALL HOLDS PER CALL
6.4%
INCREASE IN
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
At a Glance
Company Thomson Reuters
Industry Business Services & Supplies
Location United States
Products Used Calabrio ONE
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of business information services. The products include highly specialised, information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news service—Reuters.
Analysing hold times among new agents helps Thomson Reuters pinpoint training opportunities.
Challenge
A leading provider of business information services, Thomson Reuters products include highly specialised, information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news service—Reuters.
Contact centre leaders wanted to understand how the introduction of remote agent onboarding and training, due to COVID-19, was affecting their business. Using Calabrio Analytics, they identified calls with long and multiple hold times, then worked to identify the reasons behind the call holds, with the goal of eliminating them.
Analysis & Key Findings
Leaders started by analysing a group of new agents participating in onboarding and product training while completely remote.
First, they tapped Calabrio Analytics to identify which of the calls completed by new agents had long and/or multiple holds, then they used Calabrio Desktop Analytics to understand exactly how the agents handled these particular scenarios.
Revealingly, contact centre leaders discovered the new agents:
• Maintained an average handle time that was significantly above target; and
• Relied upon team members—instead of the proper resources—for the assistance they needed to answer customer questions while callers waited on hold.
Solution
To resolve the issues, contact centre leaders built a virtual training program focused on troubleshooting and using the proper resources to efficiently find answers.
We suspected—then proved to be true—that Calabrio’s combination of quality analytics and desktop analytics would give us the important contact centre insights we needed.
Jonathan Schaffer –
Contact Centre Team Leader
Thomson Reuters
Result
Thomson Reuters’ new program allows its Tax & Accounting Professionals business unit to potentially save up to 3% of its contact centre’s annual operating budget.
In addition, contact centre leaders witnessed a significant, measurable increase in the number of times new agents utilised programmer resources and additional critical thinking skills to answer customer questions.
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