The Wrong Half of the Call: Why Contact Center AI Keeps Stalling and the Role That Fixes It after-call work agentic ai ai employee manager ai employees ai in customer service average handle time call center burnout contact center ai contact center management customer experience leadership customer service ai de-escalation myra golden Jul 10, 2026

For twenty-five years I have watched the same scene on every contact center floor I have worked. A rep takes the hard call. She absorbs the frustration, steadies her voice, finds the policy, and earns back a customer the company nearly lost. Then the line clears, and her reward begins. The notes.

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Don't Fire Your Agents. Promote Them: The New Contact Center Where AI Takes the Calls and Your People Take Charge ai adoption ai agent manager ai in customer service call center jobs contact center ai contact center management customer experience customer service ai de-escalation employee retention human in the loop ikea ai case study myra golden Jul 03, 2026

Last October, my daughter was laid off, and the company named AI as the reason. I wrote about her last week, about the months of applications that went nowhere and the federal case that finally said her suspicions deserved to be heard.

So believe me when I tell you I have thought hard about what

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Preparing Your Customer Service Team for AI Agents: A CX Leader's Playbook agentic ai ai agents ai agents customer service ai and human teams ai employees ai in contact centers ai in customer service ai workforce contact center leadership contact center management contact center training customer ai manager customer experience leadership customer service training cx leadership future of customer service future of work preparing customer service teams for ai the future of customer service Jun 03, 2026

The industry calls them AI agents. I call them an AI workforce. That is not a small distinction, and I want to start here, because the word you choose shapes how your team feels walking into this change.

When you say "AI agents," your frontline hears "the thing that replaces me." When you say "AI

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AI Is About to Make Customer Service Calls Harder, Not Easier ai in customer service future of customer service Mar 14, 2026

And most leaders won’t realize it until escalations start increasing.

Most leaders believe artificial intelligence will reduce pressure on their customer service teams.

In reality, it’s about to do the opposite.

Here’s why.

AI is already removing the easy conversations.

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