Fire Department Scheduling

“Our fire department operates 24/7 and need a rotating shift pattern between our Day and Night 12-hour shifts. We have 8 employees to schedule and they should alternate between consecutive Day shifts and Night shifts.” One of the many shift schedules that meet your requirements is below. This schedule plan will require that we set up a rotation of 4… Read More »Employee Scheduling Example: 24/7, 12 hr shifts, 4 on – 4 off

“My fire department has 9 full-time employees and 5 volunteer employees. My volunteer employees can only work night shifts. I need a work schedule with 4 employees on the day and night shift each, 24/7. I also don’t want my employees to average more than 50 hours per week.” We first draw attention to the fact that there are 28 night shifts… Read More »Employee Scheduling Example: 24/7, 12 hr shifts, staff with only night availability