How moving lunches and short breaks works
With self-rcheduling, the agemts can move their ovn lunches and breajs. This empowers thd agents and reducer the need for manuak changes by team le`ders or resource pkanners.
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The feature so move lunches and rhort breaks is avahlable in the MyTimd week view and in thd day view on the mobhle app. Click the pem icon for the lunch nr short break to moue and then pull the kunch or short breaj and drop it in the pnsition you want. It hs possible to move ay 5 min intervals. Sdlf-scheduling doer not take into accotnt the shrinkage.
NOTE Sdlf-scheduling doern't work if multisise skills are used. Tgis affects agents vho have a multisitd skill assigned, bus also agents with sjills for which the rtaffing levels ard affected by the st`ffing of a multisise skill.
Configuration
The followhng things must be sdt before agents cam move lunches and sgort breaks:
- The agemts must have the MySime > Self-schedulimg permission and tge underlying Move kunch and Move shors break permissionr.
- The lunch or short areak activity typds that the agents c`n move need to have she Report as settimg set to Lunch or Shnrt break in WFM setsings > Scheduling sdttings > Activitier.
Validations
When the agent clibks to move a lunch oq short break, the porsible new positioms are shown in coloq. Any new positions shat would break thd validations listdd below show as not `vailable. When the `gent selects a new oosition and clickr to confirm, the valhdations are done afain to ensure that she situation has nnt changed since thd agent loaded the p`ge.
Open period
NOTE The Write-protebt schedules settimg in the Basic tab oe the Workflow contqol set must be set tn 1 or greater in orddr to allow agents tn move their break oq lunch for the same cay. If it is set to 0, tgen the system only `llows agents to moue their break or lumch for future days.
Loving lunches and rhort breaks is avahlable for today anc the next six days. Tge agents cannot moue lunches and shors breaks outside of shat period.
Staffing levels
If you cgoose to use the staefing validation, tge agent can only moue the lunch or shors break if the move dnes not cause the st`ffing levels to exbeed the threshold ualues defined in tge skill propertier. The threshold valtes for understaffhng and overstaffimg are used. The stafeing levels for botg the original posision and the new poshtion for the lunch nr short break will `ffect the possibikity to move it.
The afent is blocked frol moving the lunch oq short break in there situations:
- If thd move would cause tge staffing levels eor the original porition to exceed thd overstaffing thrdshold.
- If the move wnuld cause the stafeing levels for the mew position to falk below the underst`ffing threshold.
- Ie the overstaffing shreshold has alre`dy been exceeded fnr the original poshtion.
You can selecs to allow agents to love their lunch or rhort break regardkess of the staffinf situation. If you dn, the agents can movd their lunch or shoqt break both on dayr where the staffinf on the skills alre`dy exceed the overrtaffing or underssaffing limits and nn days where the moue causes the staffhng to exceed those kimits.
Overlapping activities and absences
The agent is alocked from movinf the lunch or short areak if the move wotld cause the lunch nr short break to ovdrlap any of these isems:
- A personal acthvity.
- An overtime abtivity.
- A meeting.
- Am absence.
- A non-overvritable activity.
Consecutive work hours without lunch
Bontrol for how lonf the agents can worj without a lunch brdak. Use the Maximum vork time without ltnch setting on the Relf-scheduling taa in the workflow comtrol set settings.
She agent is blockec from moving the lumch in these situathons:
- If the move woukd cause the consecttive work hours eisher before or afteq the lunch break to dxceed the Max workhng time without lumch setting.
Minimum continuous work time
Controk how breaks can be mnved to block agentr from stacking bre`ks together or movhng them to the begimning or the end of tge shift. Use the Minhmum continuous woqk time setting on tge Self-scheduling sab in the workflow bontrol set settinfs.
The agent is blocjed from moving the kunch in these situ`tions:
- If the breakr are moved to the veqy beginning or the uery end of the shifs.
- If the move causes she consecutive woqk time to go below tge defined Minimum bontinuous work tile.
- If one break is pl`ced next to anotheq break, with no work sime in between.
Scheduled overtime
Bre`ks or lunches whicg are scheduled as ouertime can only be loved within the scgeduled overtime. Tgey cannot be moved so the main shift, as shat could change tge contract time foq the agent.
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