Status: Already impactedWorkforce exposure: At risk

Customer Service & Call Centers (BPO) AI Impact

AI assistants now resolve a large share of tier-1 support tickets, squeezing the outsourced contact-center model.

Workforce exposure

71/100

Occupations matched

Employment covered

4,065,730

Most disrupted work

Answering FAQs and order/account status
Drafting and sending routine replies
Scripted outbound and follow-up calls
Tier-1 ticket triage and routing

More defensible work

De-escalating upset, high-value customers
Complex, multi-system problem solving
Judgment on exceptions, refunds and fraud

Timeline

Already underway — headcount pressure is visible now and accelerating through 2025–2027.

Companies to watch

Klarnaadapting

Said its AI assistant does the work of ~700 full-time agents and froze hiring (2024).

Teleperformancedisrupted

Contact-center outsourcer; shares pressured on AI-displacement fears.

Salesforcebenefiting

Agentforce sells autonomous support agents to enterprises.

Related occupations

Customer Service Representative
$39,000 median pay
At risk66
Receptionist
$35,000 median pay
High risk82
Telemarketer
$34,000 median pay
High risk93
Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service
$38,370 median pay
High risk75

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Customer Service & Call Centers (BPO)

Customer Service & Call Centers (BPO) is at risk for workforce AI exposure. AI assistants now resolve a large share of tier-1 support tickets, squeezing the outsourced contact-center model.

71/100

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