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