How Zendesk WFM relates to Support

Plan requirement

Subscription Any plan
Also required Workforce Management
Access Admin

A separate product reading your Support data. Knowing where each thing lives saves a lot of hunting.

How they connect

Workforce Management reads ticket and agent activity from Support, and adds its own layer: forecasts, schedules and time tracking.

It does not change how tickets are handled. Agents work in Support exactly as before.

Where things live

Tickets and channels Support
Agents, roles, groups Admin Center
Teams and schedules Workforce Management
Time tracking Workforce Management
Ticket reporting Explore
Adherence and occupancy Workforce Management

Teams are not groups

Support groups decide where tickets are routed. Workforce Management teams decide who is scheduled together. They often overlap and they are maintained separately.

Assuming a change in one carries to the other is the most common early mistake.

Two sets of numbers

Explore reports on tickets; Workforce Management reports on time. They will not reconcile, because they are counting different things.

Expect that rather than trying to make them agree.

Agent statuses connect the two

Unified statuses in Support can synchronise with Workforce Management, so availability is set once. Worth turning on early; it removes a whole category of inaccuracy.

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