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service level

Service level describes, usually in measurable terms, the services a network service provider furnishes a customer within a given time period. When used as a call center metric, service level measures the percentage of incoming calls that an agent answers live in an established amount of time.

For example, a service level of 90% can be achieved if 9 out of every 10 phone calls are answered before the established time limit.

There are multiple approaches to determining service levels, each involving how call centers define abandoned calls. They may be treated, for instance, as:

  • Missed opportunities (counted against the service level)
  • Ignored (unavoidable and a part of doing business)
  • Completed (where the caller would have been serviced properly without a premature abandonment of the call when the wait time is reasonably short).






Read more about it at:
> DiagnosticStrategies.com offers a free online tutorial on "the call center metrics that matter."
> SearchCRM.com news: Measuring agent retention translates to the bottom line
Last updated on: Aug 21, 2006

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