If Not Empathy, Why Empathy Shaped?
Nearly every QA rubric in Customer Support has a criterion version of it: “agent demonstrated empathy”. Sometimes it gets a point scale. Sometimes a checkbox. Occasionally a grading guide that says something like “score 3 if the agent showed genuine care for the customer’s situation”, as if genuine is something that means the same every…
Ines van Dijk · 23 Jun 2026














