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Rebuilding a Support Team After Two Bad Quarters

One team's account of dropping response-time targets, rewriting escalation, and what it cost them to get retention back — including what didn't work.

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The metrics they stopped reporting on purpose
New escalation path, written out in full
Cost of the rebuild in hours and headcount
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