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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Monitor schedule adherence of your agents

Use schedule adherence to evaluate whether or not your agents are adhering to their assigned schedules. You can look for areas where low-value activity can be eliminated or reduced and further analyze staffing levels throughout the day.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_shift_planning.admin

About this task

  • Adherence is a metric to analyze how closely agents follow their schedule in completing the work assignments. Conformance measures the work completed, regardless of when it was completed.
  • A high adherence rate indicates that agents are sticking to their schedules and offering customer service when expected. Low adherence suggests changing the processes or decisions to manage the team efficiently. The numbers are highlighted in red for non-adherent agents.
  • Schedule adherence and conformance calculations are based on the formulas, agents' actual and planned work timings. The following are the default formulas that are used to calculate adherence and conformance for agents. However, your administrator can change the formulas, as required. The following components and formulas are used to calculate adherence and conformance:
    • The shift_planning_clock-in and shift_planning_clock-out scripts generate the agents' clock-in and clock-out events from the login and logout sessions. The business rule Agent Time Work Event Trigger generates clock-in and clock-out events whenever there is a change in agent's presence state.
    • Schedule Adherence= (Minutes worked in shift/Scheduled shift time in minutes + Overtime)
    • Conformance= (Minutes worked in shift + Overtime)/Scheduled shift time in minutes
  • The ideal adherence percentage by default is above 70, and conformance is between 80 to 120. However, your administrator can change the threshold values. For more information, see Configure properties for schedule adherence and conformance. The agents who do not qualify to the defined threshold values are considered as non-adherent and are highlighted in red.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Workspaces > Manager Workspace.

  2. Click the Schedule icon (

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Schedule icon.\).
  1. Monitor the schedule adherence of your agents.
ToDo this
View schedule adherence at the organization or team level
  1. Click the Schedule Adherence tab.

The bar chart appears with the schedule adherence percentage and conformance percentage of your teams.

  1. View the graph and drill down further to view the analytics of your team members by clicking on the bar.
Analyze planned vs. actual scheduling for your team members
  1. Click the Team Calendar tab.
  2. Select the date.
  3. View the Time Worked summary by clicking on the bar representing the agent's actual time worked. Note: The clock-in and clock-out timings are the actual work timings of your agents. The events are generated based on the agent's login, logout actions, and presence state. If an agent forgets to clock out, the system automatically generates the clock-out event after 60 minutes by default. However, your administrator can change it using Default threshold time for clock-out event generation (in Minutes) system property.

Example: A clock-in event gets generated when an agent logs in or changes the presence status to Available. Similarly, a clock-out event gets generated when an agent logs out of the system or changes the presence status to either Offline or Break. If an agent fails to clock-out past 60 minutes of the shift end time, the system automatically generates the clock-out event.

The following team calendar snapshot illustrates how to measure how well your team members are adhering to their work schedules. The blue bar indicates the planned work shift time and next to that is the actual worked time. The default representations are purple for clock-in time, green for agent's available duration, red for the clock-out time, and grey for agent's non-available time.
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Schedule view in the Team Calendar displaying agent availability.

Parent Topic:Scheduling in Workforce Optimization for Customer Service