Generate Workforce Schedule Enhancement
When the Generate workforce schedule process runs for automatically assigned schedules, it matches workers with workload to generate assigned shifts. The process keeps understaffing when workers can't cover the entire workload. Now, it also generates open shifts that match the remaining workload. As a result, schedule managers get both assigned and open shifts that cover the staffing department workload.
Also, after a workload update, the schedule shifts might not match the workload anymore. Now the workload consolidation process generates any needed open shifts without affecting any of the existing shifts on the workforce schedule.
Thus enhancement ensures schedule managers has the appropriate assigned and open shifts to cover the workload and avoid overstaffing or understaffing their departments.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
Previously when generating open shifts, the objective was to fully cover the workload that might result in lots of understaffing if the operating shifts weren't matching the workload. Open shifts generation now finds a balance between overstaffing and understaffing.