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This Member Byte gives you the foundations. These live CX Skills courses help you and your team apply them, and every public course is 25% off for ACXPA members.
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Every contact centre leader has been there. Someone wants to cut headcount, add a compliance script or launch a promotion, and you know your customers will wait longer. But when you're asked how much longer, all you have is a gut feel.
Erlang C is the formula that replaces that gut feel. Built for the Copenhagen Telephone Company in the early 1900s, it still answers the question every contact centre asks each day: how many people do you need answering calls to hit your service level?
In this 12-minute Member Byte, ACXPA CEO Justin Tippett walks through Erlang C with one simple scenario, step by step. You'll see why the basic maths always understaffs you, and how to prove with real numbers what any change will do to your customers' wait times.
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CX Skills training
This Member Byte gives you the foundations. These live CX Skills courses help you and your team apply them, and every public course is 25% off for ACXPA members.