Hi all
Right after posting this, realised that individual weekly work plans were the best option, and that's produced what I've wanted. Appreciated the responses though, as that's affirmed the right process.
The only confusing point what that agents could be assigned directly to the Work Plan, and creating the two separate weeks and trying to assign the agent to both weekly work plans would error out. Wasn't aware that you could leave the Work Plan blank and simply assign the agents directly at the Work Plan Rotation level!
Thanks again, appreciate the speedy responses!
Regards,
John G. Smith
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John Smith
MyBudget
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-01-2020 11:19
From: Jay Langsford
Subject: Work Plan 9 Day Fortnight with SET Rostered Day off
Yeah, I second Andrew's idea on utilizing work plan rotations.
The other option is to have 2-week planing periods for the particular Management Unit, but you wouldn't get the rotation you desire in terms of alternating between 34h and 42h. I mention this for completeness and it would be valid if you wanted to set a 2-week planning period of say a total of 76h, but you were more flexible in how it was distributed in each given week of the 2-week planning period.
To your 'Work Plans don't seem to be able to create SET days off within the plan' statement, this isn't correct. If you want Bob not to work any Wednesday, then in the work plan there shouldn't be any shift in the work plan that has Wednesday as a selected day. Now if you instead want to say their day off can be any of several days, but once 'chosen' by the scheduling engine you want it to always be the same day in subsequent weeks for multi-week scheduling, then there is no current way to specify/accomplish that.
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Jay Langsford
Senior Director, Workforce Optimization Engineering
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