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Shift Planning: Building a Schedule That Survives Wednesday
Most scheduling effort goes into the version published on Friday, and most scheduling time goes into rebuilding it by Wednesday.
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Shift Swaps: Letting People Trade Without Losing Control of the Rota
Restricting swaps does not stop them, it moves them somewhere you cannot see. Five approaches reviewed, the constraints worth enforcing when you devolve
Shift Work: Designing a Rota People Can Live With
A rota can cover every hour and still be one nobody can build a life around. Six patterns reviewed, the three things a rota is actually judged
The Split Shift: When It Works and Who Pays For It
The split shift does not remove the dead hours, it decides who pays for them. Five alternatives reviewed, an honest account of where the cost lands
What Workforce Management Actually Covers
The phrase covers four separate problems that share a set of tools, and most organisations are failing at exactly one of them.
