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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. to self-service for over 100 types of interactions, from the most common to the most nuanced.

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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.