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Let's take a closer look at where managers spend their time during a standard 8-hour shift.
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Four hours for direct communication with customers and solving their problems, three hours for writing short meeting summaries, minutes, and memos.
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He will spend another hour reviewing the history of customer requests to understand whether there are any “painful” patterns in the CRM and what was previously done about them.
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In addition, you will need to understand the scale of the problems by searching for retrospective information.
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Routine tasks require recharging, so add coffee breaks and mindfulness meditation to that time if the problem is serious and you need to manage stress. A joke with a grain of truth.
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Half of support staff report burnout at work, according to the Microsoft 2023 Work Trend Index report→. And 66% say→ they cannot finish their tasks during the workday.
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With a team of 24 people, the company can support, say, 12-15 clients.
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We would like more, but that would require adding one person to each of the three shifts.
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Less routine work means easier scaling
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Every customer support call should end with a protocol.
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The question is how much time the manager will spend on this and how accurate that protocol will be.
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Delegating this routine function to AI is a logical step.
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An AI assistant will transcribe the meeting, write a summary for the customer record, and not miss subtle but sometimes important details.
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The manager will only need to lightly edit the wording and add actions for resolving the issue to the protocol.
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This approach frees up about 1-2 hours per day for each employee. That may not sound like much, but it is 1-2 hours for more complex and important tasks. And an additional 12.5-25% of resources for scaling the entire business.