Average seat utilization

This measure calculates the average percentage of seats utilized during operating hours at a contact center, where customer and other inbound contacts related to inquiries, sales, and technical support are handled by an organization. It is part of a set of Process Efficiency measures that help companies optimize the performance of their "plan and manage customer service operations" process by minimizing waste and refining resource consumption.

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Measure Category:
Process Efficiency
Measure ID:
100320
Total Sample Size:
278 All Companies
Performers:
25th Median 75th
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Key Performance Indicator:
Yes

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Units for this measure are percent.

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Average seat utilization

Key Terms

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Process efficiency represents how well a process converts its inputs into outputs. A process that converts 100% of the inputs into outputs without waste is more efficient than one that converts a similar amount of inputs into fewer outputs.

The metric value which represents the 50th percentile of a peer group. This could also be communicated as the metric value where half of the peer group sample shows lower performance than the expressed metric value or half of the peer group sample shows higher performance than the expressed metric value.

Measure Scope

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Cross Industry (7.4)

  • 6.2.1 - Plan and manage customer service work force (10387)
    • 6.2.1.1 - Forecast volume of customer service contacts (10390)
    • 6.2.1.2 - Schedule customer service work force (10391)
    • 6.2.1.3 - Track work force utilization (10392)
    • 6.2.1.4 - Monitor and evaluate quality of customer interactions with customer service representatives (10393)
  • 6.2.2 - Manage customer service problems, requests, and inquiries (10388)
    • 6.2.2.1 - Receive customer problems, requests, and inquiries (10394)
    • 6.2.2.2 - Analyze problems, requests, and inquiries (13482)
    • 6.2.2.3 - Resolve customer problems, requests, and inquiries (10395)
    • 6.2.2.4 - Respond to customer problems, requests, and inquiries (10396)
    • 6.2.2.5 - Identify and capture upsell/cross-sell opportunities (16928)
    • 6.2.2.6 - Deliver opportunity to sales team (16937)
  • 6.2.3 - Manage customer complaints (10389)
    • 6.2.3.1 - Receive customer complaints (10397)
    • 6.2.3.2 - Route customer complaints (10398)
    • 6.2.3.3 - Resolve customer complaints (10399)
    • 6.2.3.4 - Respond to customer complaints (10400)
    • 6.2.3.5 - Analyze customer complaints and response/redressal (19072)
  • 6.2.4 - Process returns (20094)
    • 6.2.4.1 - Authorize return (10364)
    • 6.2.4.2 - Process return and record reason (20095)
  • 6.2.5 - Report incidents and risks to regulatory bodies (12840)