Thanks everyone for joining us today on the second day of our Global Technology Conference. My name is Ruplu Bhattacharya. I'm a director with the equity research team at Bank of America. Today, we have Concentrix with us, and we're honored to have CFO Andre Valentine join us on stage. So Andre has been CFO since October of 2018, but he has a long history in this industry because he came from Convergys, which I think he joined in 1998. So, I mean, he's seen many ups and downs-
Your days.
- and many cycles. So we hope to have a great discussion. We also have Sara Buda in the audience, who recently joined as head of investor relations. So we're really happy to have everybody here. Andre, maybe I'll start with a high-level question. Can you talk about the macro? Talk about verticals. Which verticals are strong? Which markets are weak?
Yeah, and, you know, kind of putting the macro aside for just a minute, we feel really good about the fact that we grew 2.8%, which was constant currency pro forma in our first quarter, which was at the high end of our guidance range. And where we're seeing strength is in travel. E-commerce certainly led the charge from a growth perspective, seeing strong growth in enterprise tech, seeing strong growth in banking, financial services, and insurance. Healthcare is coming along pretty nicely. And then, you know, we do have pockets of weakness that we do think are caused by the macro.
Certainly, consumer electronics volumes are under pressure as people are just not switching out their devices as quickly as perhaps they were at one point. So we see pressure on transaction volumes there. And then we see a bit of a phenomenon within the North American communications clients, where they've reduced service levels, which has cut their staffing needs for a bit. We saw that back in the global financial crisis. That's something that, you know, typically lasts for a few quarters, and then... but eventually, you know, sort of comes back.
From a regional perspective, we're feeling really good about the strong growth we're seeing in Europe, including Africa, so in EMEA, in Latin America and in Asia-Pac, offset by there is reduced demand for delivery out of North America. So as clients want to reduce costs, they are maybe moving work either nearshore or offshore. Frankly, we're fine with that. While there's a little bit of revenue compression, the margin dollars are the same, and the margin percentage is higher.
Okay, we're gonna get a little bit more in-depth into the mix by onshore, offshore. But before I get into that, can you talk about the overall CX market? To me, it seems that coming out of the downturn, the market was growing faster. How do you see CX market growth today, and can you comment on Concentrix, your own growth, organic versus inorganic, what have you said about calendar 2024 growth?
Yeah. So, you know, we're really kind of operating. For those who don't know, we closed our combination with Webhelp in September of 2023. And so as we think about how we're managing the business on a very integrated base, way, we're really not talking about the piece parts and how they're growing. What I would say is, you know, we feel really good about the 2.8% constant currency growth we put up in Q1. And not surprisingly, this was part of our thesis in combining with Webhelp, is we're seeing strong growth in Europe and in Latin America, where the majority of their presence was. And they had very little presence in North America, where I already alluded to some of the softest.
Okay. Let's talk about sales cycles. I mean, in this macro environment, what are you seeing customers doing? Are they taking longer, or are certain verticals taking shorter? Like, what, what's the sales cycle look like?
Yeah, you know, I'd say it's, it's been pretty consistent, where it is. A great example of that is, you know, we closed on the combination with Webhelp, late, late September, and yet by, this first quarter, we closed a, a fairly large deal with a former client of Webhelp, which is a, a European, retailer, selling the capabilities, frankly, of, of now the combined company in there. And so that gives you a feel for, transactions can come up pretty quickly, and they can close within kind of the next quarter, if you will. And so that's what we're seeing.
Now, one thing we are seeing, where we see some sales cycles that will be longer, and we feel really good about this, is we're seeing some larger deals around transforming the way our clients think about and deliver their customer experience. And so this is a combination of people and technology, kind of rethinking how they deliver. Those take longer, but frankly, we'd love to see those coming back into the pipeline, 'cause they really haven't been there, and we feel good about how we're positioned in those deals. Now, those will take longer. Those likely won't contribute to revenue here in 2024, but it gives us some confidence as we think about 2025.
Does it differ by Concentrix versus the core business? I mean, are the deals structured differently? Are the sales cycles longer for Concentrix Catalyst versus the core business?
You know, we've kind of repositioned, and we'll talk about this maybe later when we talk a bit more about Catalyst. We've repositioned how we're going to market with Catalyst being focused much less on kind of where Catalyst was maybe two years ago, where they were doing larger, you know, kind of 3-5-year projects with very long-term ROIs. We're just not seeing those deals come to fruition anymore. Where we've kind of repurposed the business is really focusing on shorter, quicker to ROI deals, selling into the existing Concentrix client base, if you will. We're seeing real success there, and you see that in the 10% constant currency growth we drove in that business in Q1.
... Yeah. You know, one area of focus for clients has been the new economy clients, because these are typically smaller clients, but they have higher growth and potentially can become larger over time. So talk to us about that. Can you describe what you consider a new economy client, and talk about their growth rates?
Sure. So a new economy client to us is really a client that didn't exist 10-15 years ago. They, they've kind of changed the market. They've come at it in a different way. What we like about them is they are natural-born outsourcers. They have a core competency, and they, you know, when they look to the customer experience, if they're going to have advisors, they outsource that and don't have in-house operations. You know, that represents roughly 25% of our revenue today, is growing faster than the whole, but certainly not the way it was, you know, as we were coming out of COVID. We were seeing, you know, growth rates in the 30%-40% range.
I'd say it's more kind of in the mid- to high-single digits. So certainly accretive to the overall growth rate. What we feel good about is the—and I always have—is the breadth of vertical penetration in those new economy clients. Basically, if you look at our 10 largest new economy clients, they hit every strategic vertical that we're in with the probable exception of healthcare. And then if you look at, you know, kind of the geo mix as to where they're headquartered, if you look at our top 20, half of them are not US companies. So that, you know, spread between companies that are headquartered in Latin America, in Europe, and Asia-Pac.
Yeah, this, I think, is a competitive advantage for Concentrix, because all of your competitors target this segment. But I think you guys have done a great job making a profitable business out of even new economy clients in developing economies. So can you talk about how you're able to do that? Like, I mean, is there—how do you filter out the right kind of customer to partner with?
Yeah, we're very focused on working with customers who care about their brand experience and are willing to invest in it. We certainly look at, you know, we do work looking at their business model, what their offering is gonna be. So we try to back the winners as much as possible, and we've had great success in doing that. And, you know, particularly when you're doing that work for new economy companies in developing countries, you've got to bring something special to the table to get them to work with you. And so what we bring is our domain expertise.
We bring our technology, and frankly, as they look to build their businesses outside of that country where they started, we bring our knowledge of how to help them scale globally. And that knowledge comes from serving our enterprise client base and the large multinational corporations.
Are you seeing more concentration of these clients in specific verticals? Like, what verticals span your new economy client base?
Yeah, as I indicated, they're really in all of our strategic verticals. So, you know, we have large technology companies in there. We have large e-commerce companies, companies in there, travel aggregators, et cetera, fintechs. So again, kind of hitting the gamut, particularly at the top end, again, hitting almost all of our strategic verticals.
You know, like you said, the growth rate used to be very high, like 40% year-over-year. What do these clients care about? What are they saying? Are they focused on revenue growth? What do they need to see to, to outsource more?
Yeah, you know, the volume they have, they are outsourcing, right? So they're not doing this work in-house. What we need them to do is... So what's happened in the last couple of years? Certainly, a lot more focus on cost. And so, a headwind or that, the growth rate has come down as they've looked to move work to lower-cost geographies. They've done that with us, but obviously, that compresses revenues a bit.
Obviously, you know, what we need to do to grow our new economy clients is, you know, first of all, have the ones that we're working with continue to prosper and grow their volumes, and then, you know, continue to add net new logos there, which we've had some success with.
Okay. Maybe I want to move to the pricing environment and how contracts are priced. Can you talk about, like, what is the typical method of pricing contracts in this space? And have you seen any progress with outcomes-based pricing?
You know, Ruplu, we've been talking about outcomes-based pricing now for 10 years in this industry, and the progress there has been very slow. So while we have tried and continue to try to, you know, suggest more outcomes-based pricing in our deals, and are having some success and are seeing more of that in our pipeline, it is still a very small portion of our current revenues and a small portion of the pipeline. So pricing is, you know, still largely input based, whether that be hours or FTE or so forth.
We are seeing a bit of a move towards more transaction-based pricing, where obviously that has an outcomes-based component, where if we can be more efficient in driving processing time out of the transaction processing, we can see some margin improvement.
And why would a company go in for outcomes-based pricing? What is it for the customer to go for such a pricing agreement?
Certainty of outcome. So we in that case would be guaranteeing kind of a total cost of ownership, maybe a ceiling for a total cost of ownership with gain sharing between the two of us, but below that. And so that's what they would be the benefit for them. What we find is that only works for us and for them if we're able to control more of an end-to-end process. And so that sometimes is a barrier to them getting to the point where they're willing to do that.
... You know, one thing that clients care about in this sector is labor rates, because that impacts your costs. Can you talk about what are you seeing in terms of labor rates across the globe? And I wanna tie it back to the previous question on contract. How long are the contracts? I mean, how many years? And if you're seeing increases in labor rates, are you able to reprice the contracts? Can you go back to the customer and ask for more money because of that?
Yeah. So the contracts tend to be 2-3 years in length, and that really hasn't changed. You know, the environment around pricing and labor rates has been very, very dynamic over the last couple of years. If you go back to 2021, 2022, we saw pretty heavy wage inflation in North America and throughout parts of Europe, and clients who were fairly receptive, receptive to price increases, and they understood that the labor rates had to come up. What we've seen since then, in the current environment, fortunately, we've seen labor rates in North America and parts of Europe really come down. So we're seeing modest wage inflation, call it 3% or so. Unfortunately, not much ability to pass that along to clients.
So the expectation is that we will make that up by efficiency gains. And so that's what we're seeing in that part of the market. As we think about Asia- Pac, Latin America, we're seeing relatively consistent wage inflation as we've seen you know over the years. In certain areas like India and the Philippines, some of that impact's offset by currency. And then certainly you know again an expectation that we will try to offset most of the rest of that with efficiency gains. So the pricing environment is stable and competitive, but that's kind of where that all stands.
Maybe this is a good time to segue into your delivery mix. Can you talk about, like, nearshore versus offshore? And there was some point last year where you had some European customers who wanted to move more offshore. Are you seeing customers asking for that more? And what is the trade-off between revenues and margins longer term? I mean, what is your mix today, and what do you think it's going to be five years from now?
Yeah. So, I'll start with the kind of the revenue mix. So work performed onshore, think of that as being $1. As work moves near shore, think of that as becoming $0.75. As it moves fully offshore, think of that as becoming $0.50. The good thing about each of those is the margin dollars are consistent, and so the—as you move from onshore to near shore and then offshore, the margin actually goes up, and the profit dollars stay fairly consistent. Current mix, it's—I need to describe that a little bit to you. So roughly. First of all, we've got our catalyst business. That represents about 8% of revenue, where shore mix matters, but I think it's a little different than the rest of the business.
If I take the remaining part of the business, roughly 42% is onshore, and then the other 50% is split, it's like 35%, offshore, 15% nearshore. Now, we need to understand, though, that 42%, what I talk about as being onshore, a lot of that is in-country delivery in Japan, in China, delivery for Indian clients in India, Brazil, et cetera. And so the—so think about, you know, where, where the opportunity for more shore movement is with revenue compression, but margin accretion. Now, that's really North America, which represents about 15% of revenue, and, maybe Continental Europe, excluding Eastern Europe, which we view as a nearshore offering, that might be about 12-15% of revenue as well.
Okay. Maybe I want to move to the Webhelp acquisition-
Sure.
because this was, I think, a very strategic acquisition on your part. Talk to us about how the integration is going. I mean, what is involved in putting these two large companies together?
Yeah. So the first thing you have to do is bring together your leadership team and your go-to-market motion and the way you deliver for clients, because the clients wanna know who they're gonna be interacting with, and they wanna know who's gonna be delivering for them. And we did that, you know, almost instantly. Obviously, we started working on the integration to the extent that we could, you know, prior to the transaction closing. We had six months to do that, given, you know, the various things we had to go through with regulatory approvals, et cetera. So we kinda hit the ground running there, and so feel really good about the fact that by, you know, shortly after closing the transaction, we're selling as one and delivering as one organization.
What’s left now, as we sit here 8 months post-close, is really, you know, back office things like we’re moving on to 1 general ledger system. We’ll do that here. We’re targeting December 1st for that, the beginning of our fiscal 2025. That is coming along very well. I feel good about that. We’re moving to a single instance of our HRIS solution. That will happen in stages over the remainder of this year. And then we’ve started the process, but it takes time, of consolidating data centers. And each of those remaining 3 things that we have to do are gating factors to getting to more synergies. So we’re very anxious to get through that and get to more synergies. Feel good about how we’re trending on the synergies.
We've said we'd get to $75 million this year... with a, you know, aggregate number synergies by year three of $120 million, and very much have line of sight to the $75 million and the $120 million. Yeah, so we're progressing well.
So one thing that Concentrix has done a great job in the past is you've exceeded the synergy targets you have put out, and you've taken underperforming businesses, and you really turned them around. Can you talk to us about what, what do you see the opportunity here? Like, the synergy targets that you have, are, are those, you know, conservative targets? Do you think there's an opportunity for you to exceed them? And, and can you also talk about any costs that are associated that-
Sure
- you're having to bear this year, next year?
Yeah. So, Webhelp is a little different than from some of the transactions we've done in the past. It was not an underperforming asset by any stretch of the imagination. It was growing quite nicely, expanding margins, had great client relationships and real diversity of those relationships. So, in that regard, it is different, and so I don't wanna give the impression that it was an underperforming asset that we're trying to turn around. It was a well-performing asset, sorry, that we were very, very anxious to add to the portfolio and are pleased with how it's performing and how it's growing.
It's also different in that the level of overlap between the two businesses was less than in some of our past transactions, which makes getting to the synergies a bit harder. All that said, we had very good line of sight to the 120 target, and, you know, Chris will be disappointed if we don't try to do better than that. But certainly not committing to that. But, you know, you've mentioned our track record. We overperformed on the Convergys acquisition by, you know, $70 million or so against a target of $150 million. I don't wanna suggest we're gonna overperform to that percentage on Webhelp, but we're certainly gonna work to do better than the 120.
One of the thesis points for the acquisition was that it gave you better footprint in Europe and Latin America. So have you seen any benefit from that? Are what, how are the win rates trending? Have you seen any revenue synergies so far?
Yeah. So, certainly seen the revenue, revenue synergies with a few things. I mentioned the one deal, the large European retailer, which was a relatively small client of Webhelp, that we have sold Concentrix technology into and Concentrix footprint into. And frankly, neither one of the two companies could have won that deal at that size as separate companies. So that's a great example. We've also seen North American clients have real interest in delivery out of Africa, including South Africa. And, you know, Concentrix really didn't have much of an offering there. Webhelp did. And so there's another place where we've seen synergies, where we're selling a Webhelp footprint, if you will, to existing Concentrix clients.
So, you know, the main competitor that we always think about is Teleperformance. So from a geographic coverage standpoint, do you think the footprint of Webhelp Concentrix is now equivalent to Teleperformance plus Majorel?
Yeah, we really do. I mean, to be fair, we're in 70+ countries. They, they're in more countries than we are. We think we're in the countries we need to be in to be able to offer our clients the most optimal, cost-effective footprint. And so we're, we're very pleased with the, the, the footprint that we have. I did skip over part of your question on the synergies, and I wanna come back to that. You asked me about costs, and so we are incurring $80 million of integration costs this year.
Those will step down meaningfully next year to $20 million-$25 million, which, you know, as you think about free cash flow and how that will trend from 2024 into 2025, gives us reasons to believe that we can move free cash flow up as we reduce the spend there.
Maybe the last thing I wanna ask on the Webhelp transaction is: Is there an ERP integration, and what was the schedule for that?
Yeah, there is. So that's, that's the moving onto one general ledger system, so one ERP system, for the entire business. As you can imagine, as CFO, I sit on the steering committee of that. That is coming along, very nicely, and we go live, targeting to go live at the beginning of fiscal 2025, so that's December 1st.
Okay. Maybe now I wanna move generative AI, because that's been a topic that, you know, a lot of clients have focused on. Last I heard, you know, you had Concentrix had about 100 proof of concepts with customers. How are those progressing, and when do you think we'll start to see some results from those?
Yeah, so we're seeing results of the... You're right. We have well over now 100 now proof of concepts with our clients, with 90% of those being focused on how we use the technology to augment a human advisor to drive better customer experience, to have a more personalized interaction with the client customer. Knowing, you know, being able to have access to more data about your history with that brand as our advisor interacts with you. They're progressing well. What we do see is that clients are being cautious with the technology. So, if I was sitting up here with you three or four months ago, I would have said we'd start to see things graduating to scale, you know, at the tail end of 2024.
I think it's now 2025 before we'll see that. The barriers are, you know, the cost of the technology, the concerns about data privacy and security, concerns about regulation, across various industries and various countries. And those are so it's giving people pause, while we continue to work on proving out the proof of concepts.
So in this environment, given the proof of concepts that you have going on, has your thinking around the impact generative AI on Concentrix revenues changed? And, what are you thinking about the impact on revenues?
No, we continue to be very bullish about the impact. So what we see is, we're going to embrace the technology. We think that it can generate new sources of revenue for us as we help clients implement the technology, starting with helping them, you know, with their data using the Catalyst capabilities there around data. Certainly, looking at how then we can build application layers that sit between client systems and the model, so they can query the model most effectively to drive the best customer experience. And then all things around data privacy and security and governance are all areas where we think there are net new sources of revenue for us, as well as, you know, doing the work to train, tune the model, et cetera.
So net new source, sources of revenue, there, we think whenever we see technologies like this, clients don't want to try to figure this out by themselves. They turn to people who have domain expertise. We have that. We have it at scale within Catalyst, so we think that leads to share gains, net new outsourcing of services, so we're pretty bullish about it. Will we see some of our lower complexity work automated? We will, but I think people need to understand that, you know, the low complexity piece of the revenue that we have now is down around 10% of our total revenue. And frankly, we look to try to automate, you know, 10%-15% of our client transactions each year.
So this just gives us another tool to help us do that.
Could the impact be in that range, 10%-15% of transactions, or do you think it could be a little bit more or less?
I think, I think over time, again, it, it'll just... Gen AI will just be a tool that we use as we have all along, to, you know, to, to get to that 10%-15% of transactions that we try to, to automate each year. You know, a great example of this, we talked about this in our Q1 earnings call, is the work we've done with a regional airline, where we, you know, put in, admittedly, this was a machine learning chatbot that now we're going to replace with a Gen AI-powered chatbot.
You know, initially, took our staffing down by roughly 20%, and yet, you know, roughly a year later, our revenue with that client—our, our headcount with that client, our revenue with that client, and our margin with that client was higher. Why is that? Well, they paid us to implement the, the technology, maintain the technology. They saw that we were being more efficient than other providers, so they gave us share of outsourced volume, and they gave us new stuff that they were doing themselves. They outsourced that to us as well. That's how we've always seen automation working and playing out in this business. We don't think that Gen AI really changes that.
Mm-hmm. Maybe this is the time to segue into Catalyst, because you talked about higher level work that you can potentially get. So for our listeners, can you talk about what is Catalyst, and what are the type of services that the business provides, and what is the competitive advantage?
Yeah. Yeah, really unique in the customer services space. Catalyst, you know, is a digital IT services company focused solely on customer experience. And so it would compete with companies like EPAM and Globant, et cetera, except with a monolithic focus on just the customer experience. And so it would also compete with, you know, the Accenture and Deloitte Digital in that space as well, and often win. What it does is it really starts from everything from strategy, design, and implementation of CX. So we help clients with their CX strategy, design what they're going to do, implement it on platforms like Salesforce, Adobe, Azure, et cetera.
And then a very, very big data practice, which is kind of key to kind of feeding the engine, if you will, and becomes even more key as you think about generative AI.
So one of the things, as you were naming all of these competitors, EPAM and Globant and Accenture and Deloitte, I mean, obviously, these are big competitors-
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... some of them are, and it's a very competitive space. So when you think about the Catalyst business, I, I guess I have several questions, but the first one would be: Do you think you have enough staff? Do you think you need to hire more, or do you need to enhance the capabilities of that business to be able to really compete against, this set of competitors?
You know, we're very specific at where we choose to compete, right? So we're, we are not trying to be a digital IT services player to everybody. What we're trying to do is be focused solely on customer experience. And so that, that we think is a competitive advantage for us, as is... Now, when you marry that with our CX operations experience, not only do we have people who are solely focused on CX within digital IT services, but then they can kind of marry that with all the domain expertise in CX that comes from the fact that we run this for all these global brands around the world. And so a great example of that, you know, a big piece of the core of the Catalyst business was our acquisition of PK Global at the end of 2021.
Its largest client was also a fairly large CX operations client of Concentrix. And when we brought that together, the client's reaction was: "Wow, this, this is great. I can get out of the middle. I don't have to be the general contractor here, and you guys can really use the domain expertise to drive to a better spot." So, that we really view that as a competitive advantage. You know, if we're not gonna win, we're not going after large ERP implementations against those people or other things. If it's in the core CX space, and particularly if we're selling it into a client that we do CX operations for, where we really know the domain, and the everything about the client, we're well-positioned to win.
So talk about what you see as the revenue growth rate of Catalyst business today, and how do you see revenue growth and margins progressing? I mean, how do you plan to increase margins in this business?
Yeah. So, we feel really good about the fact that we grew in double digits, so right at 10%, in Q1. Again, with most of that being, you know, being focused into selling those capabilities into our core CX business, as well as starting to see that large project that we talked about in the fall of 2022 start to slowly, you know, contribute to revenues as well. From a margin perspective, our opportunity there is, as we grow that business, to do more of the work, more of the development work offshore. As we said, when we acquired PK Global, their onshore-offshore mix was a bit of an outlier in the industry. It was about 50/50. Others are much more heavily weighted offshore.
We've always seen that as a margin toggle for us as we grow, and that's what we're looking to execute. And we—you know, and remember, this was a business, the digital IT services space, prior to the macro turning, was growing at nearly 20%. That business is growing at nearly 20%. And so, you know, there's an opportunity to get back there with an improving macro.
Got it. Did Webhelp have its own digital IT services business? Has that been merged into Concentrix Catalyst? And what is the total revenue of the total company in terms of digital IT services?
Yes, yes, it did. And so something else that we feel about, your question actually reminds me of other ways that we're gonna grow, is now, with Webhelp, we have this capability, in Europe, and so we really did not have that before. And so being able to marry the existing Catalyst capabilities with what was in Europe with Webhelp, to really, penetrate that market, is a real opportunity for us. The business is roughly 8% of our total revenue, so call that roughly an $800 million business.
Okay.
You know, something that our core CX competitors really don't have at that scale.
Right. No, that makes sense. In terms generative AI, is Concentrix generative AI internally, and, and are you able to save some costs with that?
Yeah. We think generative AI in kind of a horizontal way and a vertical way. So the horizontal way is. It kind of cuts across all the verticals around how we recruit, hire, train, supervise, monitor the quality of, and coach our advisors. And that, historically, a very labor-heavy function supporting the front-level advisors. A lot of that cost can be taken out and made far more efficient generative AI. we were doing that, starting that process with machine learning AI, and now we can do it generative AI. and so there's a meaningful cost opportunity for us there.
Okay, so now that you have Webhelp and you're going through this integration process, how should we think about future M&A and future allocation of dollars? I mean, can you talk about capital allocation?
Sure. So, we were very specific. When we closed the Webhelp combination, we said that we took our leverage up to over 3x and that our primary use for free cash flow for the next two years would be to delever down to close to 2x within two years, and that's what we're focused on doing. That will be a major use of free cash flow for us, as will be our dividend, and you've seen us be a bit more active in share repurchases as well, committing to effectively $120 million of share repurchases here in fiscal 2024. From an M&A perspective, you know, it really won't be about scale for us anymore, and it won't be about footprint for us anymore.
It'll be about domain expertise in verticals, client sets that we can grow, and technology. But yeah, I think in the near and medium term here, you'll see anything that we do be relatively small because our focus is really on delevering. And then, you know, as we get our leverage down, close to two times, you know, we could look to do something different.
Okay. One question that we keep getting is attrition rates, because that's a statistic that people follow in this industry. I mean, how are attrition rates? Does it depend on the vertical that you're talking about? And in attrition rates of senior management or middle-level management, is that different, or less than overall?
Yeah, so, really good retention. We focus a lot on employee satisfaction across the business. It is one of the key metrics for management that we report out to our board each year. So we're very focused in everything we can do to engage all the way down to the frontline employee to retain them, right? You know, senior level management, very high level of retention. Same is true throughout middle management. You know, the industry does see, you know, decent levels of attrition at the, you know, kind of frontline level. Those have been relatively stable as we've come out of COVID. They've not gotten back to pre-COVID levels.
So meaning they've been below those levels, and so not really an issue that we're tremendously focused on. I mean, we're focused on engaging with our staff and retaining them, but we don't see attrition as a major issue for our business.
Another question we keep getting is: Is there a margin difference between voice and non-voice services? Is that still a distinction that is meaningful to talk about now, or, or not?
It really isn't. So what we focus on more is the complexity of the transaction, right? And we do very, very complex transaction across both voice and non-voice. And margin will tend to be higher with that higher level of complexity. With a higher level of complexity, there will also tend to be more technology involved, also driving the margin higher.
Can you talk about some of the non-voice services like IVR and analytics and voice of the customer? Like, what is the revenue contribution from those?
Yeah. So I'll put them in kind of stack-ranked order for you. So the Catalyst business is a non-voice business in and of itself, and that's that would be the largest of the things that you just mentioned. It, yeah, as I've said, 8% of revenue. Next up would be kind of trust and safety. So everything around content moderation, probably about 5% of revenue. And then the other items, IVR, voice of the customer, smaller.
Okay. You know, we have about a minute left, and maybe I'm gonna have this as the last question. What do you think the market is missing, or what is most misunderstood about the Concentrix story?
Yeah, I think it's really three things. One is the breadth and complexity of the services that we provide. And so we do, you know, claims adjudication work in healthcare, fraud management in healthcare and financial services, credit scoring, all that kind of stuff. And we call that all CX, but it's under a pretty broad umbrella. So that would be one thing. Two, people don't understand how much automation is already in this, right? How much of the work has already been automated or been touched by automation. And so they overestimate, you know, what's left to be automated there, with new technologies. And lastly, they don't understand that we really generative AI as a real opportunity for our business.
You know, we have the capabilities to where we can leverage it to have net new sources of revenue. We think it will drive more outsourcing 'cause clients don't wanna figure this out themselves. We think we can gain share because of our capability set. And so for all those reasons, we think we're very, very well positioned to have it be accretive to our business.
Okay, so I think, we're out of time, and we've covered a lot of different things. So Andre, really happy. It was great to have you here. Thanks for all the details you gave, and then good luck on the business.
Great. Thank you very much.
All right. Thank you.
It's been a great conference.