Insights, tips, and updates on workforce management and employee 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.
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.
Have you ever wondered how to set up your scheduling spreadsheet to quickly check if you have the right number of people on every day? Maybe you already have, but you would like some color 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.
When we set out to make an AI scheduling 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 scheduling, and also part of the territory of testing a scheduling 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).
Staff scheduling has a tremendous amount in common with the ideas explored in one of my favorite movies, Moneyball. Like Brad Pitt, schedulers have to squeeze a winning amount of productivity out of their team, while staying within a limited budget.
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 prioritize?
How to effectively make cost efficient staff schedules. Tips on the different factors to consider. Learn how to improve the cost effeciency of your schedule.
Learn how to manage night shift planning and staff well-being more effectively with practical strategies for fatigue, sleep, and night shift scheduling.
Learn how rotating schedules work, why they matter, and how to implement them in your organization to improve fairness, flexibility, and shift coverage.
