During a crisis, the need for customer service doesn’t slow down – in fact, it increases. Communications between businesses and customers have never been more important. We understand that our customers operate in critical industries and uninterrupted service is vital. [24]7.ai has invoked business continuity plans to ensure operations across our contact centers and Customer Engagement Platform are up and running. Our experts are available to help your business do the same with work from home call center capacity and automated self-service options with conversational AI, messaging, and voice solutions.
As soon as COVID-19 travel restrictions started, consumers called airlines, hotels, and rental car companies to change or cancel reservations.
The banking industry saw inquiries on contactless payments (e.g. Apple Pay) increase by 53%, while requests to stop or defer mortgage payments rose 500%.
How conversational AI and messaging will benefit your business during this uncertain time.
Even though we are not yet through this crisis, we are beginning to see the framework for how we must all operate in this new world. Companies must consider how to increase the use of automation and messaging to reduce the strain of voice calls into their contact centers. Highly- concentrated contact centers must balance their operations between different geographies. And it is essential that every company develop new onboarding, performance management, technology, and security practices for a distributed workforce.
In a recent LinkedIn article “Customer Service Continuity and Lessons Learned During the Covid-19 Pandemic”, [24]7.ai CEO, PV Kannan shares how we were able to quickly activate our business continuity plans and outlines key recommendations for contact center leaders to action:
Ultimately, contact centers must become much more automated and flexible in terms of how they deliver services.