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Coverage refers to the amount and type(s) of employees required in a specific location and time to accomplish the anticipated workload.
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Coverage refers to the amount and type(s) of employees required in a specific location and time to accomplish the anticipated workload.
Staffing refers to tasks related to maintaining work coverage during the current schedule period, especially in the current 24-hour period (Today/Tomorrow).
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In order to schedule employees appropriately to work, organizations use shifts. A shift is the specific start time, end time, and job for which an employee can be scheduled to work.
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A skill is a specialized ability or attribute of an employee that can be tracked in the system to match the right employees with the right shifts, such as language fluency, communicate skill, and so on. Skills do not expire.
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A scheduling location is the area of an organization’s business structure where an employee is assigned to work, for example, a specific unit or department and job.
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Schedule rules are guidelines organizations enforce within employee schedules. These rules can come from company policies, union agreements, or legal regulations, and may apply to employees, locations, or the schedule itself.
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When employees cannot work an assigned shift, they may be able to trade it with a coworker instead of requesting time off. In the scheduling solution, this is known as a shift swap or shift trade.
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