How to optimize shifts during a hiring freeze
Facing a hiring freeze? Learn how scheduling, skill mix planning, and communication can help your team stay safe and supported during a hiring freeze.
RosterLab Blog
Insights, tips, and updates on workforce management and employee scheduling.
How To Reduce Absenteeism For Shift Workers
Struggling with absenteeism for your shift based workers? Discover 10 proven strategies to reduce employee absences and improve retention and productivity.
The Comprehensive Guide to Facilitating Seamless Shift Swaps
Learn how shift swaps work, why they matter, and how to create a good shift swap policy to ensure fairness and compliance for your shift-workers.
7 different types of shifts for staff scheduling
There are many different shift types for modern workforces. Choosing the correct shift type for your team's work schedule can make a big difference.
Optimizing On-Call Scheduling: A Win-Win for Work-Life Balance
Discover how to balance on-call scheduling with RosterLab for happier staff and operational efficiency.
How to Implement Self-Scheduling for Modern Teams
Learn how to implement self-scheduling in five clear steps to boost flexibility, staff satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
Guest Blog - A study about self-scheduling
Kait O’Callahan, Clinical Coordinator at Unitec, is our guest author. She, along with Sharon Sitters, Lecturer at Unitec, and Mike Peterson, Clinical Tutor at Whanganui Hospital, have done a study through Unitec into the perceptions around self-scheduling in radiographers. Rosterlab was fortunate enough to support their research with our AI scheduling platform.
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.
Scheduling 101: Understanding the Basics of Scheduling
New to scheduling or want to improve your existing schedule? This guide covers all the scheduling basics including key concepts, challenges & best practices.
The 4 levels of staff schedule optimization
An excellent schedule 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 optimization. Each level represents a more complex scheduling problem, allowing for more optimization possibilities and considerably more effort and skill to construct.
Rosterlab: our official guide to scheduling
There are so many ways to make a schedule: fixed repeating patterns, rotating shifts, preferences, different shifts lengths, self-scheduling, open shifts and more. In this guide, we present our guide for how we recommend people make and manage schedules for both optimal staff retention, and skill mix.
Schedule more effectively with Excel Ep2: Sleep Days after Night Shifts
For those of us writing schedules 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 schedule 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.
