B
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40%
40% -- share of agents manually inputting customer details for customer support agents (2026)
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40%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
International Customer Management Institute
Primary
Tier C
https://www.awaken.io/resources/blog/finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack ↗
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Finding a Needle in a Haystack
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International Customer Management Institute
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ICMI survey cited by awaken.io
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Industrymarketing
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customer support agents: 40% share of agents manually inputting customer details. Source: International Customer Management Institute (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/agents-manual-data-entry
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