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Employee Shift Scheduling

    • Introduction
    • Getting started: Hello world
    • User guide
      • Terminology
      • Use case guide
      • Scheduling API concepts
      • Integration
      • Constraints
      • Using the API
        • Using the OpenAPI spec
        • API tooling
      • Demo datasets
      • Input datasets
        • Model configuration
        • Model input
        • Planning window
      • Planning window
      • Time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
      • Tags and tag types
      • Input validation
      • Output datasets
        • Metadata
        • Model output
        • Input metrics
        • Key performance indicators (KPIs)
      • Metrics and optimization goals
      • Score analysis
      • Visualizations
    • Employee resource constraints
      • Employee availability and preferences
        • Employee availability
        • Employee preferences
      • Employee contracts
      • Employee priority
      • Pairing employees
      • Shift travel and locations
      • Shift Breaks
      • 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
        • Consecutive shifts 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 tag types
        • Shift types worked per period
        • Unique tags per period
      • Fairness
        • Balance time worked
        • Balance shift count
    • Shift service constraints
      • Alternative shifts
      • Cost management
        • Cost groups
        • Employee rates
      • Demand-based scheduling
      • Priority and optional shifts
      • Skills and risk factors
      • Shift assignments
        • Shift selection
        • Employee selection
    • Manual intervention
    • Recommendations
    • Real-time planning
    • Scenarios
      • Configuring labor law compliance
      • Configuring employee well-being
      • Self-rostering and optimization
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Shift service constraints

Shift service constraints are concerned with the different aspects of managing shifts:

  • Alternative shifts

  • Cost management

    • Cost groups

    • Employee rates

  • Demand-based scheduling

  • Priority and optional shifts

  • Skills and risk factors

  • Shift assignments

See also Employee resource constraints.

For a quick glance at every Employee Shift Scheduling constraint, see the constraints section on the Employee Shift Scheduling information page on the Timefold Platform.

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