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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
      • Employee contracts: period rules
      • Employee contracts: shift rules
      • Fairness
      • Pairing employees
      • Shift travel and locations
    • Shift service constraints
      • Alternative shifts
      • Demand and supply
      • Mandatory and optional visits
      • Shift assignments
      • Shift sequence patterns: single day shifts
      • Shift sequence patterns: multi-day shifts
      • Shift sequence patterns: daily shift pairings
      • Skills and risk factors
    • Recommendations
    • Real-time planning
    • Time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
    • New and noteworthy
    • Upgrading to the latest versions
    • Feature requests

Introduction

Employee shift scheduling efficiently assigns work shifts and tasks to employees with the goal of creating schedules that minimize labor costs, ensure proper coverage, and satisfy various constraints, such as employee availability and labor laws.

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