Customer Support Was the Easy Part
Deflection rates went up. Then the hard conversations were all that was left.
By Omar Haddad

Automating the simple contacts works. The consequence is that every remaining call is a complaint, a bereavement, a fraud case, or a customer in financial difficulty.
The residual is harder
Support teams shrank and then had to be retrained entirely, because the job that remained was not the job anyone had been hired for.