As the adoption of AI to provide customer service accelerates, managers would be well advised to remember that the human ...

An investigation by the Maryland Public Service Commission found “systemic failings” in BGE’s customer call center, and the commission said the utility’s plan to fix these ...

You’re gonna love me for this. Say you’re calling customer service because you need help. Maybe your bill is wrong, your service is down or you want a refund. Instead of a person, a cheerful AI voice ...

That is just a three-year window, and you may expect that high-profile firms like those on the 500 list may value the traditional human touch — and pay for it — more so than less deep-pocketed ...

Verizon’s integration of Google’s Gemini AI into its customer service chatbot has been met with heavy criticism from both customers and employees. Complaints range from poor issue handling and endless ...

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The customer service phone line for Columbia Utilities will shorten its hours to 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Sept. 1, according to a news release from Columbia Utilities. The phone service, available ...

The Social Security Administration is surging staff to its customer service phone operations in the latest effort to address a massive influx of calls that has overwhelmed its struggling 1-800 number.

WTF?! Across the United States, consumers are confronting a new kind of obstacle when seeking help from companies and government agencies: a maze of automated systems, endless wait times, and ...

This past school year, a parent reached out to me. In our very first communication, she threatened to go to the school board if I did not locate an assignment that we later discovered her child had ...

In hindsight I’ll say: I always thought going crazy would be more exciting—roaming the street in a bathrobe, shouting at fruit. Instead I spent a weary season of my life saying representative.