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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

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The decline continued but stabilized around 2004 until the Great Recession of 2008 hit, which severely affected the labor participation rate. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service. It dropped to 63% until it normalized around 2013.