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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

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.

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Teamwork Makes the Conversational AI Dream Work

Creative Virtual

The fact that our very first enterprise-level customer has worked with us continuously since 2004 tells us that we are doing something right! While we don’t do what we do for external awards and recognitions, it’s always a nice boost for morale to have experts in the industry acknowledge Creative Virtual’s expertise and success.

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Happy Sweet Sixteen, Creative Virtual!

Creative Virtual

I’m very proud to say that our first enterprise customer, Lloyds Banking Group, who we first worked with in 2004, are still a customer today. I’ve built Creative Virtual based on long term relationships, and we see all of our customers and resellers as partners in our journey to deliver the best possible customer experience tools.