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

Add schedule breaks to a shift

After creating a work shift, you can add schedule breaks to the shift.

Before you begin

You must create shift plan and a work shift before adding a break to the shift.

Role required: sn_shift_planning.admin

About this task

You can set the break period within a work shift by ensuring that all of your agents can cover the entire shift span. For example, you set the earliest start time as 11:00, the latest end time as 15:00, and the duration of the break as one hour. If you add four agents to the work shift, the Scheduling application automatically staggers the break duration for each agent. Stagger breaks to ensure that four of your agents can cover the entire shift span.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Workspaces > Manager Workspace.

  2. Click the Schedule icon (

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Schedule icon.\).
  1. Click the Show Shifts Plans icon (
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Show Shifts Plans icon.\) and select the shift for which you want to add the break.
  1. Click Add break.

  2. On the form, fill in the fields.

  3. FieldDescription
    NameName for the break
    DurationLength of time for the break.
    Earliest Start timeEarliest time to start the break.
    Latest End timeLatest time to end the break.
  4. Click Save.