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#The cyborg future of telemarketing While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
Semi-autonomous telemarketing connects nicely with the developments it parallels in the drone world.#####Ventriloquistic telemarketing##has a nice, multisyllabic ring, too.
But perhaps the best term is##cyborg#telemarketing.####As one experienced manager in the Philippines told me,##Basically,
the agent is just the driver but the system has its own life. The agents work as ears and hands of the system.##
##In other implementations, the telemarketing humans can step in with their own voices to answer queries.
A company that helps firms stay on the right side of American telemarketing regulations looked at Callassistant s##Echo##technology,
It may be that only a cyborg solution can alleviate the inhumane nature of modern telemarketing labor.
Let s imagine that cyborg telemarketing makes call-center workers happier, call receivers more satisfied, and the sales companies more successful.
When I reached out to people in the telemarketing industry, they expressed skepticism that the system found in the#Time#recordings could be a computer.
I wrote up my story as,##The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot.####This week,#Time#confirmed with the insurance company#that they were using a soundboard-assisted telemarketing firm.
Ever since I started this project, I ve been looking for the company that created Samantha West.
they push the idea that their systems can help people who want to do telemarketing stay within the bounds of the existing American regulations.
Callassistant s Bills pointed out#that a nationwide debt-settlement company is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau#for deceptive telemarketing calls made by an old-school telemarketing company.##
what s left is a more ideal telemarketing call experience. For example, the data that they can capture with these systems is far less noisy than
because the##shift fatigue##that hits other outbound telemarketing firms doesn t set in in quite the same way.**
A world in which mass telemarketing exists, driven by the dictates of the global economic system,
means that something like 1. 5 million people have to sit in call centers doing telemarketing, and more than 10 million others have to take inbound calls.
for that to happen, people would have to ignore how their telemarketing sausage was made.####I think this is the way it all should be done,
If we end up with this weird future of semi-autonomous telemarketing, let this story show why it made sense at the time.
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