Workforce Management by Industry

The same platform, wherever the pressure on the plan comes from

QStory runs in contact centers across financial services, travel, retail, utilities, technology and outsourcing. The platform is the same in each: forecasting, multi-modal scheduling, real-time intraday automation, back office and employee engagement in one cloud-native system.

What changes is the pressure each industry puts on the plan, and which parts of the day are hardest to protect.

Financial services, travel and retail

Financial services

Banks, lenders and insurers have to document required training, give complaints, disputes and hardship conversations the time they need, and cover the back office and branch network as well as the phones. Enova International, NatWest, Nationwide Building Society and Direct Line Group use QStory. More on workforce management for financial services.

Travel and leisure

Demand moves with weather, disruption and school vacations, and much of the workforce is home-based. Jet2 gives home-based contact center staff control of their schedules with QStory, and increased coaching time by 87%.

Retail and e-commerce

Peak season concentrates a year of pressure into a few weeks, and flexibility is what keeps people through it. eBay reduced attrition by 25% using the QStory Agent App. Fabletics also runs on QStory.

Utilities, technology and outsourcing

Utilities and energy

Billing cycles, outages and storms reshape a day without warning, and back office case work builds up behind the phones. OVO and Anglian Water use QStory.

Technology and home services

Support demand follows releases, incidents and installation schedules across multiple channels. Vivint uses QStory.

Outsourcing and shared services

Outsourcers run many clients, contracts and service levels from one operation, so intraday decisions have to respect each client’s rules. Merchants and CGI use QStory.

How does QStory work across every industry?

Reforecasts as the day happens

QStory reforecasts the day as it happens and finds surplus and shortfall as they appear. See the platform.

Corrects within your rules

Routine corrections happen automatically within rules your planners set: offline work moves into quiet periods and the queues are protected when demand spikes. See the solutions it is used for.

Handles teammate requests

Swaps, breaks and other requests from the team are handled within the same rules, so planners are not approving each one by hand. Read the customer stories.