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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. How does conversational AI automation for the contact center fit into solving the issue of not having enough workers for all the demand? It dropped to 63% until it normalized around 2013.

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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. Doing things the popular way in the contact centers no longer works.”

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Convince Your Boss: It’s Time for Digital Transformation

Aspect

Blockbuster, who at its peak in 2004, had more than 9,000 stores in the U.S., The following three reason will help you convince your boss it’s time for a call center makeover. When companies make the move to a cloud contact center, they recognize cost-savings immediately. Today, Netflix is worth more than $60 Billion.

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Conversational AI is Here to Stay, But What Exactly is it?

Babelforce

Conversational AI is a buzzword in the customer service and contact center industry. The tech promises to transform the way contact centers work. You’ll be able to serve more customers faster and at a lower cost. But how many contact centers are able to make full use of it? .

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

Contact Babel teased some data from their latest UK Contact Centre Decision Maker’s Guide. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. It’s planned for release in mid November.

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

Contact Babel teased some data from their latest UK Contact Centre Decision Maker’s Guide. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. It’s planned for release in mid November.

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Conversations with Clients: Ding Yi (Allen), Ant Financial, Part I

COPC

Ding Yi (Allen), Director of Customer Service. recently sat down with Ding Yi (Allen), Director of Customer Service, who oversees the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer service at Ant Financial. “… the technology revolution (e.g.,