An open shift is a template of a shift having a start-time and end-time, day of the week and an optional list of attributes. Create an open shift when you’d like an employee to pick up a shift instead of assigning it to a specific person.
Open shifts are a good fit when:
You want to give employees the flexibility to pick shifts that work best for them.
Employees work part-time or do not have fixed working hours.
GETTING STARTED WITH OPEN SHIFTS
1. Head to the Shift Management page and click on the “Create Shift” button --> “Open shifts” --> create new
2. Enter the shift name and select the shift time "re-usable" or "Single use"
Re-usable shifts will allow you to repeat shifts multiple times based the weekdays
Single use shifts are specific to the dates for which it has been created.
3. After picking up the shift type, you can add the shift timings, shift days, and shift attributes. Shift days and shift attributes are optional values. An open shift can be assigned to any person who fits the attribute criteria. If no attributes are set, anyone can be assigned to any open shift.
3. Attributes are people level custom fields like role, system knowledge, office, department etc. Once created, all available shifts are shown on the Shift Management page
4. To apply any open shift to an employee, click on “Assign” and select the employee to which you want to apply the shift.
Once the shift is assign, AttendanceBot will notify the employee about it.
Employees too can view the available shifts by typing “open shift”.
Employees can select an open shift on a specific date by clicking on “Choose”. Once they do, the open shift is assigned to the employee.
The managers are also notified when the employee assigns an open shift to themselves.
