Best Practices
5 Signs Your Support Team is Drowning (And How to Fix It)
Adam Winchester
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10 December 2025
It starts slowly. A few tickets left over at the end of the day. Then a few dozen. Suddenly, you are looking at a backlog of 500 emails, and your team is burnt out.
If this sounds familiar, your support team might be drowning. Here are the 5 signs to look out for:
- Response times are slipping. If "24 hours" has become "3 days," you have a problem.
- CSAT scores are dropping. Frustrated customers leave bad ratings.
- Agents are cherry-picking easy tickets. The hard ones pile up at the bottom.
- High staff turnover. Burnout is the number one killer of support teams.
- Sales inquiries are being missed. Revenue is being lost in the noise.
The Solution: Intelligent Automation
You do not necessarily need more people. You need better tools. By automating the triage and drafting process with Ticket Wizard, you can free up 40% of your agents' time immediately.