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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. Traditional IVRs aren’t cutting it anymore as the bodies needed to fill in aren’t there to take the calls. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated.