Microsoft, which has backed ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is taking AI technology into a number of fields of the business world with what it calls Copilot technology, which is capable of summarizing emails ...

Nearly every time I call a customer service line, I end up waiting 15-30 minutes for someone to answer the phone, or I have to repeatedly tap "0" to reach the live representative. If you've ever had ...

DETROIT — As wildly popular as the Do Not Call List has been with consumers, it’s among the things that have been rough on telemarketers, who have seen more than a million jobs disappear nationwide.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Neera Tanden, domestic policy adviser to President Biden, on the administration's new "Time is Money" initiative. AUTOMATED VOICE #2: For all other inquiries, say ...

Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he ...

When you have to call a customer service line, where's your patience on a scale of 1-10? "Most people start at a nine or nine-and-a-half," says Amas Tenumah, who wrote a book called Waiting for ...

Oh, the lengths some people will go to get better customer service. Like recording phone calls with a customer service agent. Robert Grunfeld, who had a ticket on a United Airlines flight from Newark, ...

Forward-looking: Most people dread calling customer service numbers because it usually means navigating a menu of automated options and then waiting on hold while listening to elevator music, ...

If you’ve ever had a phone call with a customer service representative mysteriously “cut out,” it could be that they’ve found a way to end the conversation without getting in trouble. At least, that’s ...