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4 Tips for Managing a Multi-Generational Contact Center

Playvox

Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980) 29% of 2025 workforce As the generation that learned to do things manually before being introduced to computers at school, Gen X bridges the gap between the traditional and the digital. Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) 44% of 2025 workforce Millennials welcome and embrace new technology.

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Is Your Organization Ready for the Top Contact Center Trends of 2022?

Playvox

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

Technology replacing humans. In general, technology is augmenting —not replacing — the employee. Researchers predict that machines will perform more than half of current workplace tasks by 2025, up from 29 percent today. That’s what we all fear. Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM.

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AI Customer Service: Today’s Most Transformative Technologies

TechSee

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. As the technology matures, many companies will inevitably look for holistic AI solutions that unify customer and operational data to achieve the most valuable and actionable insights.

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Contact Center of the Future: 5 Essential Investments

Avaya

As the white-hot core of customer experience, the contact center needs to fundamentally evolve for organizations to remain competitive in an increasingly digital world. What does this “new contact center” look like? The contact center will experience more change in the next 10 years than the next 100.

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Customer service trends for 2021: Top analyst predictions

TechSee

A recent survey by Aberdeen of 307 contact center leaders revealed a significant surge in remote work capabilities – a whopping 52% as of June 2020, and that is expected to increase through 2021. According to Gartner research, by 2025, 40% of customer service organizations will become ?profit

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Why Data Will Power the Future of the Contact Center

Kustomer

Until now, the omnichannel, cloud-based, 360-degree customer view-enabled contact center was mostly a pipe dream, touted by technology vendors and thought leaders, with a majority of businesses falling short of this gold standard. However, customers still find themselves calling when a chatbot does not function as anticipated.