If you don’t know whether you have them, you’re not looking at the data yet. You can see it in call statistics<\/a>, and there’s usually a surprise: the critical time slot is almost never the one people think it is.<\/p>\n Four strategies, and the one you pick changes the atmosphere on the team:<\/p>\n The practical limit is around two minutes. Beyond that, abandonment spikes, and whoever hangs up rarely calls back: they call the next supplier on the list.<\/p>\n Set a maximum queue time and define what happens when it’s reached. What can’t happen is for the queue to be infinite.<\/p>\n Not silence, because it sounds like the call dropped. Not music alone either: it tells them nothing. What works is music with periodic announcements every 30-40 seconds<\/strong>, and if you can, with queue position or estimated wait time.<\/p>\n Saying “you’re number 3” noticeably reduces abandonment, because it turns an open-ended wait into a measurable one. People don’t hate waiting, they hate not knowing how long.<\/p>\n The scripts for those announcements are just as important as the setup. You’ll find templates in greeting examples for a virtual PBX<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have three agents and fifteen people in the queue, number fifteen is going to wait twenty minutes for nothing. It’s more honest to set a limit and offer an alternative than to let them wait knowing they’ll hang up.<\/p>\n Overflow is the most profitable decision in the whole setup. Options, from worst to best:<\/p>\n A queue active at 9pm makes someone wait only to never be answered. The queue should be tied to the schedule, with its own specific greeting. It’s one more case of schedule-based forwarding done right<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe six decisions that define your queue<\/h2>\n
1. How calls are distributed<\/h3>\n
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2. How long someone will hold<\/h3>\n
3. What they hear while waiting<\/h3>\n
4. How many calls fit<\/h3>\n
5. What happens when patience runs out<\/h3>\n
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6. What happens outside business hours<\/h3>\n
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