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8x8 Reports Nearly 3x Customer Growth in Workforce Management as Contact Centers Abandon Legacy Tools
8x8 Reports Nearly 3x Customer Growth in Workforce Management as Contact Centers Abandon Legacy
About this update from 8x8 Inc
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading global business communications platform provider, has seen nearly 3x growth in its workforce management customer base since its early availability announcement of 8x8 Workforce Management (WFM), offered at no additional cost. As organizations replace fragmented, bolt-on workforce tools with capabilities built directly into the 8x8 Platform for CX, the momentum reflects a broader shift in how contact center leaders are thinking about workforce management. With AI interactions growing triple digits year-over-year, according to 8x8’s Q4 FY26 data, contact centers are increasingly choosing the 8x8 Platform for CX not just to handle customer interactions, but to manage, develop, and optimize the teams behind them — driving adoption of 8x8 WFM, available at no additional cost to 8x8 Contact Center customers, and the newly launched automatic evaluations for 8x8 Quality Management. "Standalone WFM tools were built for the largest, most complex contact centers in the world – and that left organizations with the hundred-seat operations on the sidelines, making do with spreadsheets and gut instinct,” said Hunter Middleton, Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. “That's the gap we're closing. When workforce management is embedded directly in the platform contact center teams are already running, there's no six-figure implementation project, no IT backlog, no second vendor to manage. The hundred-seat contact center has always deserved enterprise-grade WFM — they just never had a version built for them, until now." WFM adoption hits nearly 3x growth, driven by supervisor self-activation Between November 2025 and the end of Q4 FY26, 8x8 WFM customer growth across the 8x8 installed base has increased by more than 170%, with adoption concentrated in deployments of 101–250 and 250+ agents. Unlike legacy WFM tools that require months of implementation, IT involvement, and upfront investment, 8x8 WFM can be activated by contact center supervisors themselves typically in minutes, with no IT admin required, and with instant access to up to 12 months of data. The operational impact is immediate: supervisors gain real-time visibility into staffing gaps and demand patterns, enabling closer alignment between agent schedules and customer volume, reduced wait times, and more time spent coaching rather than firefighting. What once required coordination...