B
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62% -- share of customers choosing phone for complex or urgent issues for contact centre customers (2025)
62% of customers choose phones for complex or urgent issues, such as billing disputes or service complaints.
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62%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
Global
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Steve Morrell
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Tier C
https://insights-me.com/human-vs-automation-contact-centers/ ↗
Source Article
Human vs. Automation: The Contact Centre Battle Customers Are Winning
Human vs. Automation: The Contact Centre Battle Customers Are Winning
It’s a showdown in contact centres: automation versus the human touch. Businesses love the speed of chatbots and IVRs, but customers? They’re still reaching for the phone, craving real conversations. With 62% of interactions happe…
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Steve Morrell
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contact centre customers: 62% share of customers choosing phone for complex or urgent issues. Source: Steve Morrell (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/customers-choose-phone-complex-issues-62
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/customers-choose-phone-complex-issues-62" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>62%</strong> -- share of customers choosing phone for complex or urgent issues for contact centre customers<br><small>Source: Steve Morrell (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/customers-choose-phone-complex-issues-62" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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