20th August 2015

Written by Jo Robinson
According to our poll, the majority of contact centres authenticate a caller in less than one minute.
However, 16% of the industry professionals who took part in our poll admitted that their contact centre was yet able to do so.
Poll – How long does it take to authenticate a caller? – answers
We don’t authenticate: 16%
0 – 14 Seconds: 14%
15 – 29 Seconds: 33%
30 – 59 Seconds: 35%
60+ Seconds: 7%
Source: Call Centre Helper webinar: Innovation that Makes Customers’ Lives Easier Sample size – 110
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Jo Robinson has worked at Call Center Helper since 2007. She started off as News Editor and is currently Operations Manager. Jo quality checks a large number of the articles on Call Centre Helper, along with caring for our customers, managing the eblast programme and sponsorship of our annual benchmarking survey.
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