Shopify Grows and Diversifies Customer Service with Calabrio – Calabrio (UK)

Shopify Expands Operations to Schedule a Global, Remote Workforce

40+

Hours per week saved
processing vacation requests

Several

Hours per week saved
managing schedules

More complex,
varied agent schedules

At a Glance

Company Shopify

Industry Commerce

Location Global

Products Used Calabrio WFM

About Shopify

Powering more than one million businesses worldwide, Shopify’s complete commerce solution enables users to set up a store to sell goods online, in person and through many other channels. With just a few mouse clicks, sellers easily can organise their products, customise their storefront, accept credit card payments, and track and respond to orders.

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Diversifying customer service by evolving from manual spreadsheets to modern, automated scheduling

Challenge

With a Support team composed primarily of agents working remotely from all around the world, Shopify’s Workforce Planning team struggled to efficiently manage agent scheduling using a traditional, spreadsheet-based approach. Using spreadsheets, it  required far too many steps and too much time to create schedules and approve vacation requests.

Leaders knew processing vacation requests ate up more than 40 hours of the Workforce Planning team’s time each week. And they suspected a single person dedicated to managing agent scheduling using spreadsheets would need to spend four full weeks creating only three weeks of schedules.

Compounding the problem was the repetitive nature of the agent schedules. Often copied from one week to the next by workforce planners to save time, the resulting, monotonous schedules led to less-satisfied agents who craved more variety in their work routines.

Solution

Shopify’s Workforce Planning team selected Calabrio WFM to help their planners automatically generate schedules and process vacation requests.

They also used Calabrio to build and implement different scheduling guidelines optimised for growth across regions and languages.

The flexibility and mobility of Calabrio has enabled us to expand operations to meet an international audience, as well as to schedule a global, remote agent workforce.”

Travis Desjardins –
Workforce Manager
Shopify

Result

Shopify’s Workforce Planning team now recoups more than 40 hours of time each week thanks to Calabrio WFM’s automated vacation processing. And each Workforce Planning team lead now saves several hours of time each week due to Calabrio’s automated schedule generation.

Workforce planners also increased the complexity of agent schedules—in many cases, tasking agents with five or more different activities per day—and can create and view different scheduling scenarios prior to publishing them, and use Calabrio’s up-to-date interaction volume insights to make real-time changes to balance queues.

Calabrio also enabled the Workforce Planning team to create different scheduling guidelines for different regions, so Shopify’s Support service could expand into new time zones and languages.

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