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Question about Effort Time when reporting

  • October 15, 2025
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dcassidy
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I’m creating several reports for team managers in Staircase. I want the reports to be easy to understand, yet impactful, as I expect we can start to use these to quantify the need for extra manpower or to inform our performance reviews. 

So far, this is what I’ve come up with: 
 


In this particular case, I’ve filtered to a time frame of 90 days; and while some of the team shows “5 days” of effort, others show just a few hours. 

Can someone share how “Effort Time” is calculated? My working theory is that it includes all emails sent/received, cases worked and meetings had (customer-facing only), and that it does not account for meetings where my org is NOT the organizer.

If someone’s “Effort Time” is, for example, 5 days, are we saying that out of 90 days the person has put in 120 hours (24hx5) or is it 40 hours (8hx5)? 

I want to have a solid understanding before I start making reports for the team managers. (Also a tool tip on that field would be awesome!)  Thanks!

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bradybluhm
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  • October 22, 2025

Hey Dawn… effort time is calculated and displayed in hours, so I’m not sure I understand the question as we don’t shift to ‘days’ at any point. It stays in hours.  
 

Help me understand if I am missing what you are asking here though.


dcassidy
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  • October 23, 2025

Hey Brady! Thank you for responding. In our instance, it does seem to shift to “Days”.  I took a long screenshot of the various values here. Any thoughts? Did I grab an incorrect field? 

 

 


dcassidy
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  • October 31, 2025

@bradybluhm just tagging you to make sure you see my above reply. Thanks! :)


bradybluhm
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  • November 19, 2025

Back from a few weeks of craziness.. looking into this with engineering