AI support cuts keep getting reversed: Gartner's 14% self-service success rate explains why
Nir777 · reddit · 2026-10-28
AI customer-support replacements keep getting rolled back. Commonwealth Bank swapped 45 call centre workers for an AI voice bot, then reversed the decision weeks later; Klarna went through a similar cycle.
The core reason is Gartner's figure: self-service actually resolves only about 14% of issues. The piece also covers why the work lands back on fewer people and what a study of 5,000 support agents found actually works instead.
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