• Amie Brennan

  • March 18, 2022 04:34

  I've got customers who run both Talk and Chat and need to be able to see:

  - the amount of time and agents has been available v offline

  - the time periods where they were offline v offline

  Both of these 2 things, can help diagnose issues with these 2 channels. For example, you get a bunch of VM's during the middle of the day, when agents swear they were online and available to take calls but the report data shows they took 0 calls. Being able to see this type of data and hold accountability back to the agent would be awesome.

  The same thing with chat, when a bunch of missed chats come through during the day, and agents claim they are online, we look and can see they are invisible and not truly online to take chats.

• Karen Hynes

  • March 25, 2022 11:13

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi all, 

  Just looking to give a small update- our plan is still to have a release towards end of Q2, this will most likely be an EAP release and closer to the time we will have comms on how to join (any changes will be communicated accordingly). The dashboard will provide information regarding agent statuses and workload per channel.

  With regards to workload (work items assigned to an agent), we would be very interested in hearing what is useful to you from a metric and KPI perspective? For example; Median/ Average/ Total Workload. It would be great to get your feedback on this as we want to make sure we are addressing your needs!

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Bertram Lüdtke

  • March 25, 2022 12:28

  Priority 1:

  • Total / Average Online Time (min + hours) 
  • Total / Average Talk Time (sec + min + hours)
  • Total / Average Wrapup Time (sec + min + hours)
  • Total / Average Break Time (min+ hours)
  • Total / Average Availability (Online minus break minus Talk time)

  Prioritiy 2:

  • Total / Average Offered Calls
  • Total / Average Accepted Calls
  • Total / Average Declined Calls (manually)
  • Total / Average Declined Calls (response Time exceeded)
  • Total / Average Forwarded Calls
  • Total / Average Talk Time
  • Total / Average Ring Time (difference between offered / accepted in sec.)
  • Total / Average Wrap up time
  • Total / Average Hold time

   

  These are just the general basics that you MUST be able to report in order to analyse an overview of availability, productivity and quality of your hotline performance.

  I know that they calculate in brackets and that some figures can be presented in a roundabout way (Priority 2), but why make it so difficult for the customer (us) than to simply define and offer the standard KPIs?

  How well and productively my team implements this and what the reality looks like from a workforce management point of view, especially in the home office, remains hidden to me without the KPIs under Priority 1.

   

   

• Matthew Sammut

  • March 25, 2022 12:29

  Karen Hynes the highest KPI metrics on our list would be:

  
  1. Online time (time logged in)

  2. Time in an available state (total time where a user is available for a call/chat)

  3. Time in an away/transfers only state (total time where user is logged in but NOT available for a call/chat)

  The above should be able to be shown per agent / group (for both Talk and for Chat) 

  Looking forward to that update! Thanks

• Anastasia Kachanova

  • March 30, 2022 15:00

  +1

• Karen Hynes

  • April 19, 2022 13:53
  • Edited

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi Bertram Lüdtke & Matthew Sammut, 

  Thanks for the feedback, our priority for version 1 will be agent states and workload per channel. Agent states referring to the core Zendesk states per channel. We will be enhancing this dataset with time and will constantly look for feedback so your thoughts are much appreciated. 

  As mentioned above, we are interested in hearing the community's thoughts with regards to workload (work items assigned to an agent) and we are very interested in hearing what is useful to you from a metric and KPI perspective? For example; Median/ Average/ Total Workload. 

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Matthew Sammut

  • April 01, 2022 08:40

  Karen Hynes could you please be more specific?

  Does "core Zendesk states per channel" include the 3 scenarios I described above? or are these not available in version 1?

• Karen Hynes

  • April 01, 2022 09:21

  Zendesk Product Manager

  HI Matthew Sammut, 

  Core states refer to states recognised by Zendesk per channel for example for Talk- Online, Away, Transfers Only and Offline. We will not be tracking when agents log in/out in the first version of the dataset. You will be able to filter by group and agent. 

  Hope that makes things clearer, 

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Matthew Sammut

  • April 01, 2022 09:28

  It does, thank you.

• Jon Simone

  • April 19, 2022 23:45

  Will there be a beta for this?

• Karen Hynes

  • April 20, 2022 08:32

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi Jon Simone, 

  Yes we will have a beta/EAP for this dashboard. Closer to the time of release, I will update on this thread how to sign up to be involved! 

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Katie Meek

  • April 20, 2022 13:34

  Average and Total are the most useful to me.  I break my KPIs by hour to gauge productivity.
  
  

  Is there any ETA yet on when this might be ready? I know we're saying "end of Q2" but clearly we're all anxious and in desperate need of this update.

  Because Zendesk does not currently have this capability, I am actively exploring other CRM/phone solutions but would prefer to stay with Zendesk if we can get this running.

• Myron

  • April 27, 2022 22:38

  Yes, I use agent availability in conjunction with various call counts, number handled, transferred, declined, outbound; average talk time, after call work, handle time. They are factored into performance tiers, e.g., above average, average, and below average. The same metrics are applied to the department, teams, agents, etc. And yes, availability in minutes and percentage will be much appreciated.

• Matt Simpson

  • May 09, 2022 21:55

  Agree with the need to be able to view for filter enabled dates and times with trending as well for time available (Total/Avg/Med) by channel and total

   

• Tan Jee Han

  • May 12, 2022 05:13

  Thanks for the latest update on this. Karen Hynes 
  May we know what is an EAP update release? From my perspective, we would like to have the option in Talk/Explore to measure the total and average of the agent's availability status in Talk i.e., Available, Offline, Transfers only and Away that can be tracked and reported on a time period basis i.e., weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly etc. as it's also an added measure of the agents' productivity apart from total incoming calls taken that are measured as a KPI for certain organizations and their respective call-centre teams. We would highly appreciate your kindest consideration for this feature to be implemented soon! Thanks for hearing us out! :) 

• Karen Hynes

  • May 23, 2022 16:34

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi all, 

  Touching base with an update on our plan for this dataset. We are removing the requirement for an EAP and as a result, we will be moving straight to GA at the start of q3 (I will provide updates here if this timeline changes). 

  Within this dataset, customers will be able to report on agent statuses per channel and work items assigned to agents per channel. This data will be available at a daily aggregated level to begin with and we will be enhancing this dataset to provide more granular timestamp and timeline views in due course. 

  I appreciate all the feedback and engagement in this thread, please keep the conversation going and I will make sure to provide updates as I have them. 

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Norman Knoche

  • May 23, 2022 16:54

  Karen Hynes this is good news and great to see activity on this subject.

  Will the historical data be available from the launch date and on, or will we be able to pull historical data prior to this being implemented as well?

• Karen Hynes

  • May 24, 2022 08:45

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi Norman Knoche, 

  There will be a small buffer on the data available in this dataset at launch (a few weeks at most), I will update here with more specific detail closer to the time. 

  Any further questions, please let me know! 

  Thanks, 

  Karen

• Chris Grabo

  • July 07, 2022 03:10

  Glad to see this is finally in the works!

• Adrian Bishop

  • July 07, 2022 07:46

  Looking forward to being able to report on agent availability in talk, this is a much needed KPI in our business.

• eCampus.com (child provisioning account)

  • July 07, 2022 11:47

  Now into Q3.  Any update on this?

• GDK

  • July 21, 2022 00:27

  This would be tremendously helpful. Looking forward to the EAP - Any update on the timeline for such?
  We will gladly provide further feedback once available.
  For us it will be crucial as much for individual agent interaction and wellness as it will be for planning the scaling and expansion of our organization.
  What would further benefit us in a second phase would be associated data sets around agent activity, in terms of time spent in different areas, such as guide, support case and notes, etc.
  This would allow us to constantly assess and tweak the tools provided to our agents and find the most efficient approach to scheduling, resource allocation, documentation, training and system-generated articles, among mote.
  
  Not to detract from the core need of being able to audit agent activity across all channels, just looking to provide additional feedback and thoughts to keep the conversation going and contribute in the hopes to increase visibility on this item and shrink associated timelines.
  
  Feel free to chime in with any thoughts, the more data we provide, the clearer the roadmap and resources ZD will potentially be able to allocate to this.
  
  Regards,
  GDK.

• Lara Cox

  • July 26, 2022 20:52
  • Edited

  Is there an update on this data set? We are almost a month in to Q3 now. 

  The post was edited to remove the pinned post with any information regarding planning? What's going on ZenDesk? Did this get removed from the roadmap?

• Tommy (Anatolii Binkovskyi)

  • July 28, 2022 11:03

  Yes, this feature is the most important and at least some update would be great.

• Anastasia Kachanova

  • August 04, 2022 09:57

  hi guys,

  do you have any updates on when this will become available?

• Karen Hynes

  • August 04, 2022 11:59

  Zendesk Product Manager

  Hi all, 

  Thanks for the continued interaction on this post! We are working hard and our updated timeline is aiming for a q4 release for these reports. As always, please keep up the engagement and any feedback you have is always appreciated. 

  Thank you, 

  Karen

• Tommy (Anatolii Binkovskyi)

  • August 15, 2022 17:18

  I managed to come up with a solution using agents_activity API and https://zapier.com/ without coding.
  My zap looks like this:
  1. Every Day in Schedule by Zapier
  I run it at 23:55 to collect most of the data for the passing day.
  2. Date / Time in Formatter by Zapier
  I Format the Zap Meta Human Now (present datetime) to the format DD/MM/YYYY (you can use any desirable format, really)
  3. GET in Webhooks by Zapier
  URL: https://{domain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/channels/voice/stats/agents_activity.json?group_ids={groups ids} (I add group id to filter the results)
  Send As JSON: true
  Basic Auth: {admin email}/token|{API token}
  4. Create Worksheet in Google Sheets
  I create a new worksheet with a title of date from p.2 and headers with fields I want to save in a file.
  5. Create Spreadsheet 
  I take the worksheet created in p.4 and populate it with values from p.3.
  Every day at 23:55, I have new worksheet with daily stats for online agents.
  
  
  It is not the best, but at least something. I hope it can help someone.

• Luis Freitas

  • August 15, 2022 17:30

  Tommy this seems above my head, at your convenience can you provide more granular instructions?

  Alos any way you can share the results of the google sheet or copy it to a new shared sheet removing agent names id that is a concern?

  Thanks!

• Katie Meek

  • August 16, 2022 00:00

  Karen Hynes I would love to set up something like what Tommy suggested above but I am struggling to do it in Explore.

  Who could I reach out to for guided assistance?

• Barry O'Connell

  • August 23, 2022 13:22

  zendesk Why is there no movement on this thread? Agent availability is a standard metric for Call Centers? Can this be be expedited as it seems from this thread and the many others I have come across on the same topic, that a lot of your customer base require this reporting functionality. 

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