Staffing
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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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Staffing refers to tasks related to maintaining work coverage during the current schedule period, especially in the current 24-hour period (Today/Tomorrow).
Many employees work standard shifts that repeat over time. To simplify scheduling, organizations can assign shift patterns that define an employee's base schedule.
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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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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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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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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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When employees call out sick, or an unexpected need to cover extra shifts comes up in the schedule, managers and staffing officers need to identify and contact available employees quickly.
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