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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. 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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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. The large cloud providers (ie.

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

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While the proliferation of handheld devices has a lot to do with the inflated expectations of customers, it is also natural. In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers.

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2019 in Review: Conversational AI and Customer Experience Trends

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It’s not often that rapidly forward-moving industries like customer experience and Conversational AI look back on the past (to be honest, there’s really just no time), but If you did, you would find that customer experience was way different 10 years ago. . AI and Agents: Better Together.