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Higher Education Chatbots – Everything You Need to Know

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By allowing a chatbot to handle the most time consuming and unrewarding work, agents can focus their time on more engaging questions and tasks. This in turn helps schools improve employee engagement and even reduce agent turnover.

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

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The Great Recession in 2008-2009 accelerated the offshoring trend as companies grappled with the economic downturn. Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. Which meant that someone from Kansas could call a U.S