Open shifts 101: Understanding the Basics of Open Shifts
Dive into our beginner's guide to open shifts: grasp the essentials and master effective implementation. Learn more about open shifts.
Sunny Feng
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Insights, tips, and updates on workforce management and employee scheduling.
Rostering 101: Understanding the Basics of Rostering
New to rostering or want to improve your existing roster? This guide covers all the rostering basics including key concepts, challenges & best practices.
Ryan Green
The 4 levels of staff schedule optimisation
An excellent roster is one that best meets and enables a unit’s staffing coverage requirements. Real life is complex and nuanced, so simple representations of which staff we need and when we need them can always be improved. In this article, we present four different levels of staffing optimisation. Each level represents a more complex rostering problem, allowing for more optimisation possibilities and considerably more effort and skill to construct.
Sunny Feng
Rosterlab: our official guide to rostering
There are so many ways to make a roster: fixed repeating patterns, rotating shifts, preferences, different shifts lengths, self-rostering, open shifts and more. In this guide, we present our guide for how we recommend people make and manage rosters for both optimal staff retention, and skill mix.
Sunny Feng
Roster more effectively with Excel Ep2: Sleep Days after Night Shifts
For those of us writing rosters with 24-hour coverage, there is the necessity to account for sleep days for those that are transitioning from night shifts to day shifts. Sometimes in the deep roster writing state, we can lose track of these things in the struggle to fill every shift. Let's set up some Excel formulas to check this for us instead of seeing it ourselves much later.
Sunny Feng
Roster more effectively with Excel Ep1: Staffing level counts
Have you ever wondered how to set up your rostering spreadsheet to quickly check if you have the right number of people on every day? Maybe you already have, but you would like some colour coding or even a quick check that every day is staffed correctly. In this post, I will go over some easy-to-implement excel formulas to do just that.
Sunny Feng
Rosterlab’s New Rostering Assistant Tier - The What’s and the Why’s.
When we set out to make an AI rostering platform, the team at Rosterlab encountered many, many Excel spreadsheets. We’ve also wound up making innumerable spreadsheets ourselves. It's part of the territory of rostering, and also part of the territory of testing a rostering AI. In this post, we go into the how what, and why of the new Rosterlab Free Tier (the who is us, and when is sign up here now).
Sunny Feng
Rosterball - Looking into the statistics of good and bad rosters
Staff rostering has a tremendous amount in common with the ideas explored in one of my favourite movies, Moneyball. Like Brad Pitt, rosterers have to squeeze a winning amount of productivity out of their team, while staying within a limited budget.
Sunny Feng
How to Navigate Staff Scheduling Trade-offs To Keep Teams Happy
Staff scheduling is a juggling act to satisfy one requirement at the expense of another. The reality is it’s almost impossible to satisfy every single requirement - so how do we choose the trade-offs to prioritise?
Sunny Feng
Improving the Cost Efficiency of your Staff Rosters
How to effectively make cost efficient staff rosters. Tips on the different factors to consider. Learn how to improve the cost effeciency of your roster.
Ryan Green
How to manage night shift planning and wellbeing more effectively
Learn how to manage night shift planning and staff wellbeing more effectively with practical strategies for fatigue, sleep, and night shift scheduling.
Ryan Green
How to implement rotating rosters for your organisation
Learn how rotating rosters work, why they matter, and how to implement them in your organisation to improve fairness, flexibility, and shift coverage.
Sunny Feng