Exceptional customer service teams deliver fast, frictionless solutions. Behind the scenes this often requires a feat of company-wide coordination. Agents must pull up account information for context, source answers from subject matter experts and quickly escalate potential issues.
Service teams tell us that Slack enables the carefully choreographed art of five-star customer service. But we wanted to go beyond anecdotal evidence. So we turned to Forrester Consulting’s market researchers to evaluate and quantify the economic impact of Slack for service teams.
Forrester Consulting surveyed and interviewed service team leaders and professionals around the world who use Slack to assess the channel-based messaging platform’s effect on customer satisfaction, resolution times, productivity, revenue and more. The results, captured in ‘The Total Economic Impact of Slack for Service Teams’, indicate that Slack not only improves the customer experience, it reduces the cost to serve and enhances the employee experience. But that’s not all. The research also found that over three years surveyed companies:
Forrester Consulting surveyed and interviewed service team leaders and professionals around the world who use Slack to assess the channel-based messaging platform’s effect on customer satisfaction, resolution times, productivity, revenue and more. The results, captured in ‘The Total Economic Impact of Slack for Service Teams’, indicate that Slack not only improves the customer experience, it reduces the cost to serve and enhances the employee experience. But that’s not all. The research also found that over three years surveyed companies:
Forrester Consulting surveyed and interviewed service team leaders and professionals around the world who use Slack to assess the channel-based messaging platform’s effect on customer satisfaction, resolution times, productivity, revenue and more. The results, captured in ‘The Total Economic Impact of Slack for Service Teams’, indicate that Slack not only improves the customer experience, it reduces the cost to serve and enhances the employee experience. But that’s not all. The research also found that over three years surveyed companies:
- Saw a 294% return on their investment in Slack
- Increased revenue by $967,300 due to improved customer satisfaction
- Reduced average ticket handle time by 10.7% and escalations by 17.4%
- Cut the cost per ticket by 15.1%
- Internally, service teams improved employee satisfaction, coaching and culture
Prior to using Slack, many of the leaders and professionals surveyed relied on a mix of ticketing tools, knowledge bases and communication platforms to address customer concerns. Their teams struggled to bridge the gaps between the tools, information and experts needed to resolve issues fast. After adopting Slack, service teams gained access to the people and information they needed without the hassle of toggling between their ticketing tool and internal workstreams.
The day-to-day benefits of using Slack translate to significant monetary gains: Forrester Consulting estimates that surveyed companies saw an additional $967,300 in revenue from improved customer satisfaction, while cutting the cost of customer service tickets by $2.6 million.
We recently launched a handy tool to calculate the ROI of Slack based on this case study. Now you can zero in on the benefit of Slack in a way that is measurable and specific to the needs of your service teams in mere minutes. It only takes a few quick inputs to get your customised data.
We recently launched a handy tool to calculate the ROI of Slack based on this case study. Now you can zero in on the benefit of Slack in a way that is measurable and specific to the needs of your service teams in mere minutes. It only takes a few quick inputs to get your customised data.
We recently launched a handy tool to calculate the ROI of Slack based on this case study. Now you can zero in on the benefit of Slack in a way that is measurable and specific to the needs of your service teams in mere minutes. It only takes a few quick inputs to get your customised data.
‘Our frontline team can now reach out directly to product and cross-functional SMEs. We’re now one larger team swarming tickets, instead of tier 1 vs. tier 2 vs. tier 3, etc.’
Financial benefits aside, Slack was shown to improve employee satisfaction, coaching and work-from-home culture. The channel-based messaging platform also sped up onboarding for new employees, giving them immediate access to information and teammates via Slack channels. Slack’s personalised learning pathways for new hires enabled surveyed companies to provide a warm welcome and lay the foundation for long-term success.
Experience matters to customers and employees alike. With Slack, the Forrester Consulting study respondents were able to improve experiences both internally and externally. Those qualitative experiences resulted in quantitative gains. When it comes to customer satisfaction, the findings show that Slack quite literally pays for itself and then some.
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