Assign to Locations

After you create jobs, you must assign them to locations. Since not every location has the same needs, you do not need to assign all the jobs to all the locations. Although, you can assign job rates on a total organizational level.

For example, a small chain of restaurants offering alcoholic beverages is unable to acquire a liquor license at one of their locations, so the owners decide to install a coffee bar instead. The organization can choose to not have the jobs bartender, bar back, and cocktail waitress assigned to the location without the liquor license and can create a substitute job such as barista or coffee bar server. Since none of the other restaurants have a coffee bar, it is unlikely that the other locations would need to assign the job role of barista. Therefore, the job role of barista only exists at the one location.

You can also configure jobs by location, which means you do not need to apply default specifications. For example, two locations have the job of line cook. At one location, the age requirement for a line cook is 16 years and the pay rate is $6.00 an hour. At another location, the age requirement for a line cook is 18 years and the pay rate is $6.50 an hour. Both of these locations use the same enterprise-wide job definition, line cook, but configure it differently at their respective locations.

When assigning certain jobs to locations, you can assign special pay rates for hourly employees. For example, if baristas do not require the same amount of experience as that of a well-trained bartender, the owner can decide that baristas should only make $7 an hour as opposed to the liquor bartenders who make $9 an hour.