{"id":1912,"date":"2022-08-23T05:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T05:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.replicant.ai\/benchmark-report-contact-center-automation-is-moving-to-the-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:03:20","slug":"benchmark-report-contact-center-automation-is-moving-to-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.replicant.com\/blog\/benchmark-report-contact-center-automation-is-moving-to-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmark Report: Contact Center Automation is Moving to the Mainstream\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Contact center leaders are facing the hardest customer service climate in history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to new data found in the 2022 Benchmark Report<\/a> \u2013 a survey of 300 US-based contact center leaders conducted by global research firm Demand Metric \u2013 organizations are experiencing clear challenges to their customer service goals.<\/span><\/p>\n While some challenges represent lasting effects brought on by the pandemic, new obstacles have introduced additional complexities:<\/span><\/p>\n The report, titled Automation in the Contact Center, found that 91% of leaders believe automation is a critical priority to overcoming rising costs, hiring challenges, and call volume spikes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n In fact, most contact center leaders (95%) have either already adopted, are implementing now, or are planning to implement automation within the next year.<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cAutomation has the power to transform the industry, as evidenced by the accelerated adoption of the technology,\u201d said Gadi Shamia, CEO and co-founder at Replicant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMore and more companies are using automation to address chronic agent shortages and lower costs, while allowing their live agents to focus on more challenging and interesting customer issues. This survey confirms what we\u2019ve seen in the market, that automation, especially natural sounding voice automation that resolves customer challenges, will soon be standard in every contact center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Read below for key findings from the report or download the full 2022 Benchmark Report: Automation in the Contact Center<\/a>. The press release can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The pandemic and ensuing Great Resignation saw contact center agents reevaluate their jobs \u2013 with many choosing to pursue other lines of work. As a result, customer service leaders have been forced to face rising customer demands and more unpredictable call spikes with understaffed operations and more expensive hiring cycles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to the 2022 Benchmark Report:<\/span><\/p>\n As hiring and training costs have risen, agent recruitment has become less of a viable solution to long wait times and dissatisfied customers. Still, improving customer satisfaction remains the top contact center priority (77%) by a wide margin, with addressing staffing\/workforce issues second (60%).<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly all contact center leaders (95%) have either already adopted, are implementing now, or are planning to implement automation within the next year. Results from the report shed light on the prioritization of automation deployment, as well as trends regarding contact center leaders\u2019 automation goals and investment plans:<\/span><\/p>\n Contact center leaders indicate a disparity between customers\u2019 most used channels and the effectiveness of each. Omnichannel service remains a goal for most, and leaders see the voice channel as a key value proposition of automation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the majority of respondents are not only excited about the prospect of automation in the contact center, but believe it will have a disruptive or revolutionary impact on customer service:<\/span><\/p>\n While the 2022 Benchmark Report confirms many of the challenges Replicant has heard directly from contact center leaders, the data makes it clear that that Contact Center Automation has passed its tipping point not just in adoption, but in perceived value:<\/span><\/p>\n As Contact Center Automation continues to return cost savings to operational leaders, its impact will be felt beyond just bottom lines. With Contact Center Automation at the forefront of customer service transformation, customers will continue to get answers faster, agents will be free to focus more on tasks that require human creativity, and brands can return to delivering exceptional customer service no matter what challenges arise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Contact center leaders are facing the hardest customer service climate in history.\u00a0 According to new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
People and costs are top contact center challenges<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Automation is the top solution<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Deployment obstacles, strategies, and trends<\/span><\/h2>\n
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