Self-Scheduling App

Agent-centric self-service scheduling software

Empower your agents and meet your most pressing workforce challenges with Calabrio’s comprehensive agent self-scheduling software.

Give agents the freedom to build their own schedules, trade shifts, request time off, and more.

Offer self-service scheduling options in the convenience of the Calabrio My Time mobile app.

Simplify schedule changes and fill gaps with intelligent automation and a self-regulating intraday management system.

Optimize service levels with automated recalculation of predicted service levels for every skill & any schedule change.

See how Calabrio Self-Scheduling works

Explore Calabrio’s self-service agent scheduling and workforce management solutions with a free demo.

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Empower your agents to be at their best

The Calabrio ONE suite’s leading workforce optimization solutions are designed to empower agents with greater influence and flexibility, as well as personalized, data-driven insights, while giving managers more time to focus on what matters most.

Agent Self-Scheduling Tools

Give employees increased flexibility and control

Easy-to-use self-service scheduling streamlines shift planning and bidding, making it easier than ever to balance employee needs with customer demands. Calabrio My Time empowers employees with easy access to their schedules, keeps them in sync with managers and planners, and drives engagement for improved productivity and retention.

Predictive Forecasting and Scheduling Tools

More accurate forecasts, speedier scheduling

Eliminate hours of tinkering with schedules. Leverage Calabrio’s powerful scheduling-optimization engine to set accurate employee schedules in just minutes. Rules-based automation makes it easy to balance budgetary requirements, employee requests, and compliance needs while delivering improved customer experiences.

Real-Time Adherence (RTA)

Detect and correct problems immediately

Monitor employee status with customizable overviews – in real time. The RTA information, visible alongside schedules and employee state data, makes tracking adherence and adjusting schedules effortless. Maintain service-level targets throughout the day. Users can view historical adherence to spot behavioral patterns, as well as approve out-of-adherence.

Why use self-service agent scheduling tools?

Contact centers and customer support teams everywhere are facing overlapping challenges in attrition, employee work-life balance, and rising costs. Calabrio Self-Scheduling tools empower agents to take control of their schedules, supporting a better balance of autonomy and flexibility with operational needs and efficiency.

Greater agent influence means better customer service

At Calabrio, we know that it’s empowered agents who deliver exceptional service experiences. Self-Scheduling for Calabrio WFM can help you build an environment where employees feel empowered, trusted and confident in their work, while saving your organization time and money by fully automating your key intraday and scheduling processes through a customizable rules-based approach.

 

Agents with access to Self-Scheduling are able to:

Build their own schedules

by adding work hours on an unscheduled or scheduled day. Automatically schedule lunch/breaks based on predefined rules

Move their lunches or breaks

through self-service drag-and-drop functionality from a smartphone or laptop

Trade shifts with their colleagues

without team leader or administrator intervention—while still maintaining staffing-level requirements

See probability of their request being approved

directly in the MyTime App without having to reach out to a supervisor

Increase their likelihood of overtime

by entering their overtime availability in MyTime, creating a resource pool for planners when needed

Get notifications from Grant, an AI virtual assistant

when voluntary time off or overtime is available, plus use a conversational flow to easily make the change

A trusted ally to leading brands looking empower employees and maximize performance

Calabrio ONE is trusted by Fortune 500 brands and counted on by top technology partners. See how we’ve helped leaders in an array of industries get the very most out of their customer experience data.

“What’s great about Calabrio’s self-scheduling capability is that it lets agents manage and change their own schedules as unexpected things happen throughout each day, without negatively impacting the contact center’s service level.”

Natalia Brown

Chief Client Operation Officer, National Debt Relief

Nearly 80% of surveyed customers said their agents have more flexibility and happiness in their schedule now using Calabrio WFM.

TechValidate survey of Calabrio ONE users

Over 80% of surveyed contact centers said “Calabrio WFM has increased our ability to balance the needs of business and needs of agents."

TechValidate survey of Calabrio ONE users

Calabrio ONE

One suite to understand and elevate every interaction

Get all the tools you need in one fully integrated workforce performance suite.

How We Help Brands

Leading-edge tools built—and trusted—to enrich and understand human interactions

Only Calabrio ONE unites WFO, agent engagement, and AI-fueled business intelligence solutions into a true-cloud, fully integrated suite that adapts to your business.

540%+

ROI

20%+

Increase in Handle Time

40%+

Decrease in Agent & Customer Effort

91%

Customer Satisfaction
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Leaders in contact center workforce satisfaction

See why customers choose Calabrio to quickly turn insights into revenue-boosting action. 

“This is the best system to use for workforce management in the BPO industry. Live monitoring of employees status and schedules to avoid lost hours. You can also access daily records of agents' workflows. Work avoidance can be easily determined by this tool.”

Charles Angelo V

Outsourcing/Offshoring Quality Analyst

“We have a global workforce and Calabrio has been absolutely instrumental in allowing us to schedule and manage coverage worldwide.”

Lisa P

Enterprise Workforce Analyst

“I was a long-term user of a different WFM tool when I started using Calabrio to assist with forecasting and scheduling. It was a very intuitive learning curve to input call volumes and forecasts based on historical drivers. I find it very easy to set up new users and build schedules.”

Brian W

Mid-Market Workforce Management Planner

Looking for help?

Get answers to some of the most frequently asked Workforce Management questions.

Agent self-scheduling is a feature within Calabrio Workforce Management (WFM) that gives your agents more control over their schedules. It’s a comprehensive set of agent-centric, self-service tools designed to meet today’s workforce challenges.

Through a mobile app or laptop, agents can:

  • Build their ideal schedule: Select preferred shifts and days off.
  • Easily make changes: Move lunches or breaks, and swap shifts with colleagues.
  • Request time off: Submit vacation or leave requests directly through the system.

This feature empowers agents, improves their work-life balance, and reduces the risk of losing valuable employees. It also helps contact center management become more efficient and provide better customer support.

Self-service agent scheduling tools offer several key benefits:

  • Increased agent autonomy and flexibility: Agents gain more control in managing their schedules, leading to a better work-life balance and increased job satisfaction.
  • Reduced administrative burden for managers: Automated schedule changes and time-off requests free up managers to focus on more strategic tasks.
  • Improved agent engagement and satisfaction: Greater control over schedules can lead to happier, more engaged, and more motivated agents.
  • Optimized service levels: Automated adjustments help ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained at all times, even with agent-driven schedule changes.
  • Enhanced customer experience: A more engaged and empowered workforce translates to better customer interactions and improved service.

Self-Scheduling is just one feature of Calabrio’s comprehensive contact center workforce management software, part of the Calabrio ONE workforce performance suite.

Calabrio ONE users also have access to an array of tools that help simplify and improve staff scheduling and other aspects of workforce management, including:

  • Advanced Forecasting: Calabrio WFM uses historical data and machine learning to accurately forecast call volume, understand seasonality, and anticipate spikes and lulls in demand. This ensures you can confidently schedule the right number of agents.
  • Multi-Skill Scheduling Optimization: This feature allows you to schedule agents based on their skills and proficiencies, ensuring the right people are available to handle different types of customer interactions.
  • Intraday Scheduling Tools: These tools enable you to react quickly and effectively to unexpected changes in call volume, ensuring service levels are maintained throughout the day.
  • Powerful Reporting: Our AI-fueled business intelligence tools take self-service reporting to a new level. WFM users have access to up-to-date data that was previously difficult to obtain and combine. Quickly build and automate custom reports, easily analyze different data sets, create ad-hoc reports and more.