There are few things worse than needing to call a customer service agent for help. Stubbing your toe? Maybe. Working on Christmas? Probably. Hearing the final score of a game you DVR’d? Definitely.

Former reps reveal what they say happened at the other end of the phone. — -- More and more disgruntled customers are posting personal horror stories online about their interactions with customer ...

LOS ANGELES & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Almost half of customer service calls are abandoned due to call center background noise, with 42% hanging up immediately when they detect the noise. That’s ...

Generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have a beneficial impact on customer service workers that can boost their productivity and improve how customers treat the workers, according ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its AWS Contact Center Intelligence offering with a new call transcription analytics tool that it said can generate more insights from customer conversations.

The next time you need a company’s contact number and don’t want to bother navigating through labyrinthine websites, head to the Elliot Advocacy Contact List instead. Here you’ll find the customer ...

Nearly every time I call a customer service line, I end up waiting 15-30 minutes for someone to answer the phone, or I have to repeatedly tap "0" to reach the live representative. If you've ever had ...

You’re talking to a friend in a coffee shop … and responding to several missed text messages. You’re on the phone with your aunt … and purging your inbox. Sound familiar? It’s easy to see why ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Neera Tanden, domestic policy adviser to President Biden, on the administration's new "Time is Money" initiative. AUTOMATED VOICE #2: For all other inquiries, say ...

Joan Cuadra’s 100-year-old mother wears a panic button around her neck in case she ever gets into trouble in her Westchester home. Ideally, you push the button on the device and within seconds an ...

Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he ...

Australians ringing customer service have long been used to calls being answered in the Philippines or India, but soon the call could be answered in Bali – by an expat Aussie.