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Employee Shift Scheduling

    • Introduction
    • Planning AI concepts
    • Metrics and optimization goals
    • Getting started with employee shift scheduling
    • Understanding the API
    • Employee shift scheduling user guide
    • Employee resource constraints
      • Employee availability
      • Employee contracts
      • Work limits
        • 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
        • 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
      • Shift rotations and patterns
        • Shift rotations and patterns
        • Shift rotations
        • Single day shift sequence patterns
        • Multi-day shift sequence patterns
        • Daily shift pairings
        • Overlapping shifts
        • Shift start times differences
        • Minutes between shifts
      • Shift type diversity
        • Shift type diversity
        • Shift types worked per period
        • Unique tags per period
      • Fairness
        • Fairness
        • Balance time worked
        • Balance shift count
      • Pairing employees
      • Shift travel and locations
    • Shift service constraints
      • Alternative shifts
      • Cost management
      • Demand-based scheduling
      • Mandatory and optional shifts
      • Shift assignments
      • Skills and risk factors
    • Recommendations
    • Real-time planning
    • Time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
    • Changelog
    • Upgrading to the latest versions
    • Feature requests

Shift rotations and patterns

Managing shift rotations and patterns is important in employee shift scheduling and includes:

  • Managing shift rotations where employees work alternate shift patterns over set periods of time, for instance, 1 week of day shifts followed by 1 week of night shifts.

  • Managing single day shift patterns such as split shifts.

  • Scheduling multi-day shift sequence patterns. *Determining which shifts should be paired together, for instance, if employees work a Saturday shift, should they also work the Sunday shift?

  • Managing overlapping shifts, such as on-call shifts that overlap with employees' regular shifts.

  • Keeping the variation between shift starts times to a minimum where possible.

  • Ensuring employees are not scheduled to work shifts without enough time between the shifts.

The following guides provide examples and explain how to manage shift rotations and patterns:

  • Shift rotations and patterns

  • Shift rotations

  • Single day shift sequence patterns

  • Multi-day shift sequence patterns

  • Daily shift pairings

  • Overlapping shifts

  • Shift start times differences

  • Minutes between shifts

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