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📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

  • 1.  📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-15-2024 10:27
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    Hi Community, 

    this week sees the release of "Manually assign work plans with future effective dates".

    This feature allows administrators to set up work plan changes in advance, making it easier to manage planned transitions between Work Plans, for example, full-time to part-time schedules or early shifts to late shifts. The schedule engine automatically applies these updates during future schedule generation, reducing the need for same-day changes and minimizing manual workload. 

    To help understand the details and use cases for using Work Plan effective dates I've attached a walk-through video to guide you through the process.

    In addition to this you can find out more in the help center:

    work plan assignment overview

    Any questions please comment below.

    Paul


    #WorkforceManagement
    #Scheduling

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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 2.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-16-2024 07:56

    Hi Paul, are there any plans to introduce future dated changes on Work Plan Rotations?



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    Timothy Milburn
    Planning Manager
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  • 3.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-16-2024 09:00

    Hi Tim, 
    Start and end dates already exist for Work Plan Rotations.
    More information can be found in the Resource Centre article:

    add a work plan rotation
    Paul 



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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 4.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-16-2024 11:03

    Hi Paul

    I was under the impression that if you assign a Workplan Rotation with a future start date for an Agent it removes them immediately from their current workplan.

    Tim 



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    Timothy Milburn
    Planning Manager
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  • 5.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-16-2024 12:01

    Hi Tim, 

    When assigned to a single-week work plan this becomes your "default Work Plan" and underlies any work plan rotation (or work plan override) you have, this is depicted at around 1:48 of the video.

    The scheduler only schedules the agent for the rotation based on their start and end dates within the work plan rotation --> agents tab:

    In the above Adam would be scheduled according to his single-week work plan until the 4th of November, then transition to the rotation until the 12th of November when he'd transition back to his single-week work plan.

    Paul



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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 6.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-16-2024 17:45

    For the Work Plan Rotation feature as it exists, could this be used as a way to implement "temporary" schedules as well? For example, school schedules, when we're accommodating an agent's need for different hours on a 3-month basis? From what I'm understanding, we could create a "SS Agent" plan, assign it to one agent with an End Date, and then put the temporary schedule as the only schedule in the Rotation; is this accurate?



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    Gene Gutierrez | Workforce Coordinator
    Presbyterian Customer Service Center
    Albuquerque, NM
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  • 7.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-17-2024 06:27

    I understand how it works for Workplans so assuming this will not work when we want to move a CSR from one work plan rotation permanently to another with a future date (beyond a date where schedules have already been generated)



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    Timothy Milburn
    Planning Manager
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  • 8.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-17-2024 07:01

    Hi Timothy, 

    I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

    The behaviour for work plan rotations hasn't changed so what you are saying is correct. An agent can only be part of 1 work plan rotation at any time, regardless of their start and end dates. 

    Moving someone from work plan rotation 1 to rotation 2 before their end date would result in them moving to work plan rotation 2 with immediate effect. 

    Paul



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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 9.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-17-2024 08:09

    Thanks for the clarification Paul, are there any plans to introduce similar start/end date functionality for rotations that don't remove the agent before the  start date from their current rotation.  This is the functionality that would provide the most benefit for our organisation.

    Thanks



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    Timothy Milburn
    Planning Manager
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  • 10.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-17-2024 08:28

    no at the moment. I'd encourage you to raise an idea based on your use case in the ideas lab:

    Genesys Ideas Lab

    and feel free to add to this post to help promote the idea and conversation to help us prioritise future road map items.



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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 11.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-18-2024 00:44

    100% agree with Timothy Milburn.

    Our business has relief staff who cover other staff for periods of 3 - 8 weeks at a time.

    Being able to set the WorkPlan Rotation for a 5 week period - 16/12/2024 - 19/01/2025 would be amazing.

    As it is currently, we have to use 5 of the available 15 slots in order to create coverage:

    16/12/2024 - Supervisor Workplan week 4

    23/12/2024 - Supervisor Workplan week 5

    30/12/2024 - Supervisor Workplan week 6

    06/01/2025 - Supervisor Workplan week 1

    13/01/2025 - Supervisor Workplan week 2

    If someone is away for 6 months on Maternity Leave, the individual Workplans just won't cut it.

    Regards

    Wayde



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    Wayde Masters
    Demand Forecasting & Resource Officer
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  • 12.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    GENESYS
    Posted 10-21-2024 05:04

    Hi Wayde, 
    from what you have described both the new Effective dating of Work Plans and Work Plan Rotation start and end date configurations would help you manage the relief staff's transition between Work Plans.

    For more information, please see the help articles:
    add agents to a work plan rotation

    manage work plan assignments

    Paul



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    Paul Wood
    Product Manager for Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
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  • 13.  RE: 📢New Feature - Manually assign work plans with future effective dates

    Posted 10-21-2024 16:28