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Service Level

posted on May 9, 2022

The call center term “service level” generally refers to a percentage of time that contacts are answered within a certain period of time. For example, if the service level objective is 30 seconds, then the 30-second “service level” will be the percentage of calls that were answered within 30 seconds.

The service level time is typically measured from the time that a call arrives at the ACD to the time that the call is connected to an agent.

Many call centers have different service levels (e.g., such as a 30 second service level, a 20 second service level, etc.). These different service levels may be dictated by clients or by different campaigns.

Service levels should be reported across different reporting intervals. For example, a reporting interval may be half hour time increments, hour increments, etc.

Analytics should provide supervisors with these intervals in a reporting structure that allows the supervisors to spot trends (like declining service levels at an end of a shift, etc.).

Call center service levels are related to average speed of answer but are reported differently to identify specific staffing and handling issues.

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