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The Manager’s Guide to Call Center Service Levels

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There’s debate over whether Ericsson or Rockwell was actually first to market with a true Automatic Call Distributor. In other places, you might read that the 80/20 principle came from an AT&T study conducted some 30 years ago, that found that callers tended to hang up after 20 seconds in the queue.

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Why an 80/20 Service Level is Wrong for Your Call Center

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Rockwell, which got out of the call center business in 2004, was one of the pioneers of the technology. In other places, I’ve read that it came from an AT&T study conducted some 30 years ago, that had found that callers tended to hang up after 20 seconds in the queue.