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AHT (average handle time)

Mean time an agent spends on an interaction, including talk time, hold time and after-call work.

AHT is the most watched and most gamed metric in the industry. Pressure on it produces rushed calls, premature transfers and repeat contacts, which cost more than the seconds saved.

It is a capacity-planning number that got promoted to a performance target, and most of its pathologies follow from that.

In QXAI

Not something we compute. Handle time comes from your telephony platform, not from an audit.

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