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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

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In February 2020, 7 million jobs were open in the US, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%. The early 2000s recession affected the US from March 2001 to November 2001 and led to a decline in participation in the workforce. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. In January of 2000, 67.3%

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.