Float Management Enhancements

Schedule workers from float pool departments to fill the business needs and understaffing in your departments.

Identify every department that's a float pool department using the Workforce Structures > Manage Departments quick action. In the Scheduling Department Information section for each department, set Float Pool to Yes.

Option to Set Your Department as Float Pool

Add float pool departments to schedule generation profiles using either or these two methods.

Float pool department: Add the department in this section if workers from your float pool departments are scheduled directly in staffing departments to help cover the staffing department workload. No schedules are generated for these float pool workers, but you can let them self-schedule. Otherwise schedulers have to manually assign shifts to these workers.

Tip: You can add the same float pool department to the Float pool department section on multiple schedule generation profiles.

Schedule Generation Profile with Self-Scheduling Enabled and Showing the Float Pool Department Fields

Staffing departments: Add the department in this section if you need to import workload and generate schedules for the float pool department, just like other staffing departments. If the schedule generation profile allows self-scheduling, these float pool workers can self-schedule, just like staffing department workers. The difference from other staffing departments is these float pool workers can also float to the other staffing departments added to the schedule generation profile.

Tip: You can include only one float pool department, and it can be in only one schedule generation profile.

Schedule Generation Profile Showing a Float Pool Department Added in the Staffing Departments Section

This feature helps schedule managers more efficiently fix scheduling gaps with float pool workers and avoid understaffing in their departments.

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.