How to Use help desk in a Sentence

help desk

noun
  • What about the help desk issue?
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This encourages them to call to a help desk, which then convinces them to pay up.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2024
  • There are tasks like help desks where people have to do the same cumbersome, tedious tasks over and over.
    — Alon Goren, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • After nearly two years, Lewis left to work at an IT help desk.
    — Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Instead of calling the help desk, the imposter’s location would be checked.
    — Bojan Šimić, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Not far from where the two sat, a customer service light flickered on and off, but no employees manned the help desk.
    — Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • If flights are canceled outright, head to the airline’s help desk—airport staff will be best placed to direct you.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Boyd had scheduled a meeting with Portillo and Bren Lane, the help desk lead.
    — Andy Tonsing, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The hidden cost of password resets, lockouts and help desk tickets is enormous.
    — Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • ServiceDesk Plus shines at handling help desk incidents.
    — John Brandon, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
  • For example, someone may open a ticket with the help desk for trouble accessing a website.
    — Peter Karlson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • End the conversation and contact your school through an official help desk number or website.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The company did not address questions about its policy giving its help desk leeway to ignore such alerts.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • People already at an airport usually go to an in-person help desk — but lines are long when there’s widespread disruptions.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Entwistles say they were escorted back to the main help desk, where they were informed that Martyn was banned from flying.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Like last year, many airports are still facing staff shortages, which can cause backups at the security queue as well as at check-in counters and help desks.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2023
  • These efforts are streamlining tasks across help desks, HR and business analysis.
    — Peter High, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • If your flight is canceled, contact your airline’s customer service line, visit their website, or go to their in-person help desk at the airport.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The employee said the help desk is well-meaning and sometimes helpful, but often the fixes don’t work, and new tickets have to be submitted.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Visitors may still be able to get in, but rangers would not be around and infrastructure like restrooms, help desks and other facilities would be closed.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Visitors may still be able to get in, but rangers would not be around and infrastructure like restrooms, help desks and other facilities would be closed.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This can take the form of external customers calling up service centers or filing tickets, or even internal help desk customers.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Apps here span the creative, CRM, messaging, and help desk categories, among many others.
    — John Brandon, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • Our review process verifies the availability and responsiveness of help desks on the online casino sites.
    — Matthew Gover, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Zoho Desk is a robust help desk solution designed for small businesses that can easily scale as your company grows.
    — PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Those attacks impacted customers who reached out to the company's help desk in 2024 or earlier.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 3 June 2025
  • Workers staffing a help desk call survivors directly to get an update on their psychological and economic status.
    — Suhasini Raj, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • These roles range from construction managers to sales supervisors to web developers and IT help desks.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • For example, instead of summarizing a help desk ticket, an agent can route it to the right team and close the loop automatically, in real time.
    — Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Measure total cost of ownership, including help desk time and breach remediation.
    — Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

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