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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

While sometimes interaction avoidance truly is an agent trying to get out of work, in many other instances, it’s a way to cope with feeling overwhelmed by customer mistreatment or aggression. It also could be a sign that the agents are overworked. A big contributor to this burnout and the resulting avoidance is customer behavior.

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Redefining the Future of Enterprise Contact Center Solutions

Balto

According to Gartner, utilizing AI chatbots could save contact centers up to a total of $80 billion in labor costs by 2026. These inefficiencies can be a result of low agent morale, high turnover rates, agent burnout, and a lack of self-service channels.

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Is the Contact Center a Good Career? Tenured Agents Say Yes

Balto

Subscribe for weekly insights from the Conversation Excellence Lab A People Person’s Dream Job By 2026, Gartner predicts that 75% of customers will call service lines due to loneliness, not because they have a customer service issue. If agents received 0 pieces of feedback from their peers, their peer respect was reported as 3.95/5.