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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

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The early 2000s recession affected the US from March 2001 to November 2001 and led to a decline in participation in the workforce. Traditional IVRs aren’t cutting it anymore as the bodies needed to fill in aren’t there to take the calls. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated.

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

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All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.