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Employee Shift Scheduling

    • Introduction
    • Getting started: Hello world
    • User guide
      • Terms
      • Use case guide
      • Planning AI concepts
      • Constraints
      • Understanding the API
      • Demo datasets
      • Planning window
      • Time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
      • Tags and tag types
      • Validation
      • Metrics and optimization goals
      • Score analysis
    • Employee resource constraints
      • Employee availability
      • Employee contracts
      • Pairing employees
      • Shift travel and locations
      • Employee activation
      • Work limits
        • Minutes worked per period
        • Minutes worked in a rolling window
        • Minutes logged per period
        • Days worked per period
        • Days worked in a rolling window
        • Consecutive days worked
        • Shifts worked per period
        • Shifts worked in a rolling window
        • Weekend minutes worked per period
        • Weekends worked per period
        • Weekends worked in a rolling window
        • Consecutive weekends worked
      • Time off
        • Days off per period
        • Consecutive days off per period
        • Consecutive days off in a rolling window
        • Consecutive minutes off in a rolling window
        • Shifts to avoid close to day off requests
        • Consecutive weekends off per period
      • Shift rotations and patterns
        • Shift rotations
        • Single day shift sequence patterns
        • Minimize gaps between shifts
        • Multi-day shift sequence patterns
        • Daily shift pairings
        • Overlapping shifts
        • Shift start times differences
        • Minutes between shifts
      • Shift type diversity
        • Shift types worked per period
        • Unique tags per period
      • Fairness
        • Balance time worked
        • Balance shift count
    • Shift service constraints
      • Alternative shifts
      • Cost management
      • Demand-based scheduling
      • Mandatory and optional shifts
      • Shift assignments
      • Skills and risk factors
    • Recommendations
    • Real-time planning
    • Real-time planning (preview)
    • Scenarios
      • Configuring labor law compliance
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Scenarios

Learn more about the following scenarios:

  • Configuring labor law compliance

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