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Phone Coverage During Staff Turnover

The two weeks after a front-desk resignation are when reputations leak.

The turnover gap

Start with your own numbers: pull a month of phone records and count rings that never became conversations. Most owners guess low by half — the misses hide in lunch rushes, bay noise, and the hour after close when intent is highest.

Continuity through transitions

The fix isn’t heroics; it’s structure. Decide, in writing, what happens to a call your team can’t take: who or what answers, what gets captured, and how fast follow-up happens. A rule beats a resolution every time.

De-risking the desk permanently

This is exactly the layer an AI phone receptionist installs in about 30 minutes: every call answered 24/7 with unlimited minutes, appointments booked on the call, and a written summary — caller, vehicle, request, outcome — delivered before the caller hangs up.