Fairness

Balancing the workload fairly across employees is an important factor in employee shift scheduling.

Employees like to know they are getting a fair share of the available shifts, and they are not assigned an unfair number of undesirable shifts, for example, the late shift.

Ensuring fairness by spreading the workload evenly can help with employee satisfaction and retention.

Fairness can be determined in a number of ways. For employee shift scheduling you can balance the number of shifts assigned and the amount of time worked.

Without fairness, there could be situations where some employees are assigned multiple shifts and others are assigned no shifts at all.

Fairness can be managed with balance time worked rules and balance shift count rules. Using balance time worked rules when shift durations vary, ensures fairness takes the different shift durations into account. Using balance shift count rules when shift durations are not a factor, ensures fairness takes the total shift count into account.

The following guides provide examples and managing fairness for employees: