We would also like to know does this affect the gamification views? We have a project that handles about 80% of contacts in callbacks.
For this team we have a AHT metric setup with both voice and callback media channels combined.
Over half of the team shows AHT for less than 5 minutes when this teams actual level is somewhere in 9 minutes and the absolute best agent has a AHT of more than 6 minutes.
here is one example in the Gamification view and in Agent performance both with data from last week for the same agent.

Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2024 14:30
From: Sabyasachi Pradhan
Subject: Callback Handle Times
The Interactions View page will be the best place to pull the data on how long Agents spend handling a Callback ( and the corresponding Call when they start dialing the customer ). The 'Total Handle' column will contain the combined handle time without the double count that we were seeing before.
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Sachi Pradhan
Product@Genesys
[https://twitter.com/pradhan_sabya]
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachipradhan/]
Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2024 10:36
From: Bill Gleeson
Subject: Callback Handle Times
Hello I have had the following statement from my customer today.
I'd like an explanation from Genesys about how we are to report on the amount of time agents spend on Callbacks following this feature release.
We can still report on the callback time outside of the call but I'd like confirmation from them about how we are to provide the complete time spent by agents going fwd.
There is no way to specifically identify Callback calls if we run the Voice media type and try to obtain the data from there. But even if we could, we'd still need to combine that with a Callback report and manually process the data outside of Genesys.
If this is that way they expect us to work going forward following their 'upgrade', it would be good to have that from them.
can you assist?
Thanks
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Bill Gleeson
Connect Managed Services (UK) Limited
Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2024 17:25
From: Sabyasachi Pradhan
Subject: Callback Handle Times
As others have noted, the new metrics are not available in the summary views, which is a shame. For example, if I look at Queue Performance Summary, I can see AHT and THT, but not the new metrics broken out.
We are taking a look at some options here. The initial goal was let's not double count things and let's show the actual picture of what an agent is doing with a Callback. The new metric ( Active Total Callback ) wasn't exposed here since its already captured in the call leg for an an agent handling the Callback ( The actual outbound call that the agent is initiating to complete the Callback request )
On the second point, lets see what care says. They might pull in the respective teams to dig into this further.
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Sachi Pradhan
Product@Genesys
[https://twitter.com/pradhan_sabya]
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachipradhan/]
Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2024 15:14
From: Paul Simpson
Subject: Callback Handle Times
Hi,
Firstly, let me say thank you for rolling this out, very much needed!
Now, for the concerns / issues...😯
- As others have noted, the new metrics are not available in the summary views, which is a shame. For example, if I look at Queue Performance Summary, I can see AHT and THT, but not the new metrics broken out.
- This may not be new, but we have just noticed it. Bear with me here as it takes some explaining. I have a customer who (fairly regularly) transfers calls from one Queue to another. This is done via a "dummy" number, so the call gets all the flow treatments, including the offering of callbacks. OK, so we have noticed some weird behavior. Let us assume a call Goes into Queue A first, and is then transferred to Queue B. Whilst waiting in Queue B, a callback is offered and set up. (So the callback has nothing to do with Queue A). If you look at the Queue Performance Summary, filtered to show only callbacks, the call does not show for Queue A, but if you drill down into the Queue Interaction Details for Queue A, again filtered for callbacks, it does!
Similarly, it would seem that the call statistics shown in the Performance Summary relate only to that part of the call that was handled by an agent in that queue, but the Queue Interaction Details shows statistics relating to the entire call.
This is causing some confusion. It came up because the lack of Callback Data showing in the Performance Summary (which is what is wanted) has necessitated te exporting of the Queue Details and it has not been possible to get the numbers to agree!
Help! (Yes, we have a ticket open with Care about this...)
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Paul Simpson
Views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Original Message:
Sent: 07-21-2023 15:02
From: Sabyasachi Pradhan
Subject: Callback Handle Times
Hi All,
Quick update on this beta feature we will be bringing out soon. This relates to how Handle and Talk times are calculated and shown for Callback interactions on GC. We have had a long running beta around this idea that we are planning to release soon.
Here is what supervisors and admins can expect :
- A new segment in the timeline view for Callback interactions that will explicitly demarcate the portion that overlaps the active voice part of the Callback ( the portion where the agent dials the Callback number and speaks to the customer who requested the Callback ).

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- An update in how we calculate handle and talk times for Callbacks in Analytics
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- The new Callback segment won't be used to calculate the handle and talk times for Callback interactions preventing the double count that happens today.
- A new metric will be exposed in existing analytics details API to show this new segment. This new metric will be included within the Callback session of an Agent participant. Existing tHandle and tTalk will also be updated to reflect values that won't take this new segment into account.
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- tActiveCallback, tActiveCallbackComplete
NOTE: BETA users who are using the API to pull these new metrics must update their logic to look for tActiveCallback and tActiveCallbackComplete. We will remove the duplicate metrics tCallback and tCallbackComplete by the time we GA. There will be change announcement on this coming soon with explicit timelines. The values are the same but we renamed it based on beta feedback for better clarity going forward.
#Reporting/Analytics
#Roadmap/NewFeatures
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Sachi Pradhan
Product@Genesys
[https://twitter.com/pradhan_sabya]
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachipradhan/]
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