Forrester Report: AI Agents Reshape The Customer Service Workforce In Dramatic Ways
Forrester's 2026 report, "AI Agents Reshape The Customer Service Workforce In Dramatic Ways," models a customer service organization that gets smaller at the front line and deeper in specialist roles: subject experts, relationship managers, hybrid quality managers, AI agent builders, and heads of support insights. The harder question is how you run it. A workforce made of people and AI agents still needs forecasting, coaching, quality, and clear ownership. See the two- and five-year scenarios.