Generating Holiday Schedules
Depending on the number of employees you need during the holiday season, creating a special work schedule for the weeks before, during, and after the holidays may be necessary to ensure that you business operates smoothly. This may mean having to hire seasonal employees, asking full-time employees if they can work extra shifts, and allowing part-time employees to work addition hours as well.
Creating holiday schedules can be more frustrating than creating regular schedules because of increased time-off requests, making sure seasonal employees receive enough hours, and ensuring that all shifts are covered – even the ones that are undesirable. While you want to be fair when it comes to giving employees time off during the holidays to spend with family and friends, the shifts still need to be covered in order the business to remain successful.
When you use Web Work Schedules, you will be able to create multiple schedules quickly and easily. You may choose to create separate holiday schedules for regular and seasonal employees, or add seasonal employees to your list and create one schedule. You can make changes when an employee doesn't show up, which will make verifying the number of hours worked by each employee much easier.
Before the holiday season begins, ask all employees who are eligible for time off to send you time-of requests by a certain date so you can log them and add them to the schedule. Creating a weekly holiday schedule may be easier depending on the number of employees you have. Employees will be able to view their schedules online, which will reduce the number of missed shifts. You can also send messages to employees when you need emergency coverage.
Software applications like Web Work Schedules are very useful when you have to schedule additional employees. When you need to review past schedules, you can pull them up easily online. This will reduce the amount of paperwork to sift through and will help you create a holiday schedule that is fair to all employees during the holiday season.
Posted at 02:17PM Mar 07, 2008 by Chris in General |