Zendesk Talk: Allow Reporting on Agent Availability
PlanifiéeAt this time, only real time reporting is available for Agent availability in the Talk Dashboard. It would be store this data so that the agent Total Online Time and Time Available can be tracked. With the current functionality, it requires someone to log in at the end of day (not ideal when you have coast to coast support) to retrieve the day's metrics manually.
Unsure if this topic was posted, but wanted to follow up on this thread initiate 2 years ago - https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006250347-Can-I-report-on-agent-availability-in-Zendesk-Talk-
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Hi all,
I want to provide an update on the status of this feature. We have just launched these datasets alongside a pre-canned dashboard to a small group of customers as part of our closed EAP testing. Due to the obstacles we have faced during development, we are releasing this to a small cohort of customers initially to do further stress testing before moving to Open EAP. Once we are ready to go to open EAP, I will announce in this post alongside providing the sign up form so you can submit interest in being a part of this early access program.
As mentioned previously, we have been working very hard on this feature and this has remained as top priority for our teams. Please keep an eye on this post for the announcement of the open EAP in the coming weeks!
Thank you all again for your cooperation,
Karen
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Upvoting here also. We would like to see if there's a pattern in agent availability. Not all Zendesk accounts have developers on staff to pull the API and maintain a separate report....
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I also would really like to have this data where we could review for a set period of time. Having to grab it manually every day is not ideal. Can you provide an update on this request?
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Agreed! We need to know the total time an agent was available for any period of time we want to draw historical context. This is a basic hygiene metric for a call talking support organization. It helps us know the distribution of workload and also if someone is not adhering to the timelines set.
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Also upvoting as this would help determine which Agents are performing up to standards and who are needing coaching opportunities
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It may have already been mentioned here - but all of these metric updates need to be featured across all applicable channels. Agent availability is just as crucial in Chat as it is in Talk etc..
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Karen Hynes Baring in mind this thread is open 4 years and still no further clarity on when this will be available, I am looking at alternative suppliers. I do not fancy moving into yet another year without this very basic, standard metric reporting. One of your competitors has been in contact with me and they have this reporting functionality along with almost every other feature of Zendesk and then some, all for almost half the price of what we currently pay Zendesk. You're making this decision very easy.
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Agreed we need this feature. It would also be great to report on not only availability, but the other Talk Statuses as well.
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This.
Voice contact center operations need this to understand utilization and occupancy is commonly a KPI for agents in my organization (along with others, I'm sure).
Seconding Amanda's request for reporting on all statuses -- I'd also like to know how many times an agent manually went into each status (in case someone is toggling quickly to avoid calls)
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This is such a basic feature which is missing. We've had to move our entire call centre into Zendesk Talk ahead of schedule, and we're struggling to track this. Each of the call centre team leaders have to manually record each agents online/away time from the Talk dashboard at the end of the day which is ridiculous.
Luckily we're a small call centre (around 50 agents), but I could see this being a major problem for larger ones.
Starting to think Zendesk Talk was not a good idea and we'll most likely look to go with an alternative solution.
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Another vote for this being made available sooner than later - the metrics are there, we just need access to them. I can see the stats for online time, available time, etc on an average, but I can't pull the information for certain time periods myself?
Please make this available soon - we need it desperately.
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Hi team,
As mentioned by Karen, "To re-iterate on the timelines, we will be looking at a release in q4" - Could we have any update on the release plan? Once it's released, can we take that it's possible for us to get the available metric to show the availability of agents by date, for example, how long an agent has been online/away for that day?
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Jay McCormack
I submitted a ticket to their support team with a high priority. I feel bad doing that, as I personally dislike when our clients inflate an issue just to get more attention/jump the line, but I agree that the majority of us are pretty frustrated that there hasn't even been a check-in to tell us its getting pushed.... again.- UPDATE (12/28): Their Support team basically said, "Ill check in with the Talk team about getting you an update" but when pressed on when I should expect to receive that, they said "There is not a typical ETA on this type of question, even outside the holiday." So while I'm sure the agent assisting me is nice and doing what they can, I have no hope.
- UPDATE (1/4): Reached out to their Support Team again on my ticket. Response was "No updated from the Talk team but I'll follow up with them on Friday. They said they'd try to give me an update within a week."
We also are prepared to switch vendors, as the absence of these key management data points make it difficult for us to justify continued cost; when other vendors, in similar price ranges, have these basic reporting and management features out of the box.
For a company who sells their products based on the claim that they make providing quality and effective customer service a breeze, they sure don't lead by example and are further proving that's not enitrely true... -
Reporting on both Chat and Talk to see how long people are on specific statuses (online, away, wrap-up time, etc). How agents manually adjust their status.
It would also be great to have the option to create an activity log for agents. At the moment, to understand how my agents go through the day, I need to puzzle together their timestamps for public replies in support, calls (and their duration), and soon chat too. There is no easy way to see that an agent sent a reply at 9:20, then at 9:27 took a call that lasted 7 minutes, then at 9:45 sent another public reply. This means that there is no good way to understand our complete agent activity, and what their day looks like.
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It's been almost a month since the last update on this post. Is Zendesk still on track to executive in Q4?
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Karen Hynes zendesk - You do realise this is Q4 yes? And we are still no further or none the wiser on when we will have this very basic standard metric reporting.
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@Zendesk please provide us with updates on this matter.
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Zendesk's silence on this issue is mind boggling! Are you so comfortable with your customer base's INABILITY to 'churn' that you've chosen to just not update them on what is an obvious hot spot and pain point to so many?
There are now just over 2 weeks left in Q4 2022. If Zendesk had any chance of this getting into a final sprint for the year they'd know by now yet...radio silence.
I, for one, will be looking to move away from Zendesk if this issue is not addressed. I don't care what the pain will be for me and my organization, I just can't continue to do business with an, ahem, "partner", that refuses to share information on something important. At this point I don't know what is worse' the missing functionality that is crippling our ability to manage our business or the lack of respect to communicate with the customer base.
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This is a vital feature of almost any call center. Our reps are held accountable for their availability and time in status- being able to pull this as a monthly report is extremely necessary
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+1 Vote from me!
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New to Talk and surprised to find you can't report on a metric that is so crucial in reflecting an agent's performance.
Also surprising there is no auto-log-off feature for agents! Been 'planned' for quite some time (years). :( -
Agree with this metric being available across both Talk and Chat channels. Reports to measure Availability Time, Away status timestamps, etc. for previous day, week, month, etc. is crucial. This metric is pretty standard for contact centers.
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Historical data relating to agent status and availability MUST HAVES:
1. Historical reporting on agent time spent on available.
2. Historical reporting on agent time spent on away.
3. Historical reporting on agent time spent on offline.
4. Historical reporting on average/sum calls per available hour
5. Integrated schedule of when employee is scheduled to work Support/Talk tickets/Chat tickets and having historical markers of when employee made themselves available late or early in that scheduled time. Being able to set goals/SLA within that time frame and giving historical reporting on efficiency.
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I have to agree with the posters above. This is a major roadblock to the realistic management of personnel. I have been following this feature for a while, and the release keeps getting pushed back. As the feature gets pushed back, I have also had to push back implementing some policies and procedures for my staff. But as we continue to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to run my business without those.
In January of this year, we were looking at a Q2 release.
Then in May, it was moved to Q3.
Lastly, in August, we were moved back to Q4.
Any specific information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Are we likely to get pushed back again? Has the team settled on a projected release date?
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Upvote! What is the update from q4 research?
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Way too little way too late. Together with all the downgrades currently being forced on customers, confirming that all earlier promises on this subject is now broken just confirms our company's decision.
If implementing the most basic metric for any customer service, especially when it used to be available, takes 4 years of broken promises, then there is a huge trust issue with how Zendesk is going to cope with future changes.
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any updates on this topic? when we actually will be available to see granular historical reporting on agent availability and performance in Live Channels??
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agree this is very much needed :(
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Please make this, it is much needed for us!
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+1 totally agree, this is a major missing KPI, which is basic and has to be available.
Honestly I am shocked, that - especially with just 3 different status sets - there is no chance on reporting this.
Never expected these to be missing - will be a crucial factor deciding wether I extend our suite plan..
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