New reps are most likely to quit in their first months, before they reach full speed.

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Example Payback Sheet

Tavisham Contact Services

Early-tenure attrition · 200 reps

What it costs a year
70 departures at $7,165 each
$501,550
What fixing it returns
7 fewer departures
$50,155
After the cost of the technology
Pending
Recommendation: Worth pricing. Start with better-fit screening for new hires.

From a study of AI assistance for support reps: “...treated agents with two months of tenure perform just as well as untreated agents with more than six months of tenure.”

Brynjolfsson, Li, and Raymond, NBER Working Paper 31161, 2023; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025
Alex Breuer
Alex Breuer
Founder and Principal at Nuvoxis
alex@nuvoxis.comLinkedIn

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Where contact centers lose money

Every early exit is paid for twice.Recruiting, training, and nesting start over for the same seat.
Recruiters screen big applicant pools by hand.Qualified candidates wait behind everyone else.
Ramp is slow, and coaching is thin.A supervisor can sit in on only a few calls while new reps learn the rest alone.
After-contact work adds up.Reps type summaries after every contact instead of taking the next one.
Routine contacts still wait for a person.Status checks, resets, and simple changes hold a rep who could take a harder call.
QA hears only a sliver of calls.Reviewers score a small sample, so coaching misses most of what happens on the floor.
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