Summary

These are notes regarding CE's need to have multiple web sessions with unique customer IDs open simultaneously.  CE can currently have 3 such sessions going in Avante. We explored whether this will continue to be necessary when most of these transactions are handled through the web interface, in which case we need a solution that enables users to have multiple browser tabs or windows open, each with unique customer IDs (and associated cookies, etc.).  We concluded the answer is yes.

Data gathering and conclusions

In mid-July (2013) Meme asked each worker to note each time he/she had a session open and opened a second before closing the first.

Summary findings

  • The average person opens up a second session before closing the first 12 times per day.
  • The minimum was 0.
  • The maximum was 37.
  • The standard deviation was 8.

A few important notes to color in the story:

  1. New people have multiple sessions open more than veterans (they don’t work fast enough or know enough to close sessions quickly before a new one comes there way).
  2. People on the phone have more sessions open at once.  Phone calls come whether you’re working on something or not.

A summary might look like this:

 

 

Lots of Phone and IChat Work

Lots of Fax and Email Work

New Employee

30X per Day

15X per Day

Seasoned CE Pro

15X per Day

5X per Day

 

Tina & Meme’s Tabled Data -

 

 

# of times requests were overlapped (or "stacked" on top of each other)

 

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

 

10-11am

2-3pm

2-5pm

10-11am

2-3pm

2-5pm

10-11am

2-3pm

2-5pm

Rep 1

4

5

7

1

0

0

7

2

2

Rep 2

8

8

4

10

5

3

7

3

1

Rep 3 11:00 person

0

6

0

0

2

3

0

5

2

Rep 4

2

0

0

6

2

3

5

4

4

Rep 5 11:00 person

 

0

1

0

0

0

0

2

3

Rep 6

6

3

2

3

3

5

4

5

2

Rep 7

6

4

4

5

5

5

6

4

2

Rep 8 11:00 person

0

5

3

0

2

1

0

4

2

Rep 9 11:00 person (came in early)

16

5

9

3

2

4

10

9

4

Rep 10 11:00 person (came in early)

3

4

3

7

6

4

2

2

3

Rep 11

15

7

15

15

**

**

5

10

13

Totals

60

47

48

50

27

28

46

50

38

** left a noon