With Custom agent status, admins/supervisors can get complete visibility into how agents are spending their time when they’re unavailable to assist customers. This makes planning for workforce management much easier and helps evaluate agents better.
An agent’s status determines if they are available for Automatic Ticket Assignment. Only an agent who is ‘Available’ will be assigned issues.
Freshdesk Omnichannel provides a set of default and custom agent statuses. An admin/account admin can enable/disable a custom status, whereas default statuses cannot be toggled.
The default and custom statuses will be displayed to all agents in an account. When you disable a custom status, it will not be available for agents to choose from. Check out Setting your Availability Status for more details.
Status name
Status type
Description
Available/
Unavailable for Omniroute
Available
Default
Indicates that the agent is logged into the account and is available to address issues.
Available
Ongoing call
Default
Indicates that the agent is logged into the account and is on a call.
Unavailable
Unavailable
Default
Indicates that the agent is not logged into the account and is not available to address issues.
Unavailable
After Call Work
Default
Available only for the phone channel. Indicates that the agent is performing activities like adding notes/tags, etc.
Unavailable
Meeting
Custom
Indicates that the agent is logged in to the account but is attending a meeting. Hence not available to attend to issues.
Unavailable
Break
Custom
Indicates that the agent is logged in to the account but is on a break. Hence not available to attend to issues.
Unavailable
Training
Custom
Indicates that the agent is logged in to the account but is attending training. Hence not available to attend to issues
Unavailable
Lunch
Custom
Indicates that the agent is logged in to the account but is away for lunch. Hence not available to attend to issues.
