Designing Fair Rotas
Practical frameworks to balance fairness, coverage, and cost in rotating and fixed shift systems. Includes worked examples and templates.
Workforce Planning Essentials
Turn demand into robust staffing plans with step-by-step methods for forecasting, skills mix, and scenario testing.
Absence & Holiday Management
Policies, processes, and tools to allocate leave fairly while protecting service levels across the year.
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Designing Fair Rotas
Designing Fair Rotas
Frameworks, case studies, and templates to build fair, compliant shift patterns without raising costs. Formats: Print, PDF.
Workforce Planning Essentials
Workforce Planning Essentials
From demand to headcount: forecasting, skills mix, and scenario planning with clear worksheets. Formats: Print, PDF.
Absence & Holiday Management
Absence & Holiday Management
Policies and practical tools to manage leave, peaks, and fairness. Formats: Print, PDF.
Rota Design Playbook
Rota Design Playbook
Pattern libraries and decision rules to adapt shifts to variable demand. Formats: Print, PDF.
Operational Analytics for Schedulers
Operational Analytics for Schedulers
Essential metrics and simple models for day-to-day scheduling. Formats: Print, PDF.
Negotiating Shift Changes
Negotiating Shift Changes
A manager’s guide to consultations, communications, and agreements. Formats: Print, PDF.
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Holiday Included Shift Patterns
Holiday Included Shift Patterns
This book tells you everything you need to know about including staff holidays in your shift pattern
Fatigue & Shift Work
Fatigue & Shift Work
Working round the clock on a well organised shift pattern can be fantastic for the staff as well as the company. There are many advantages to being on a shift pattern.
Calculate How Many Staff You Need
Calculate How Many Staff You Need
The aim of this book is to teach you how to calculate how many staff you need to run your operation. This book will teach you how to calculate the number of staff by skill set for any shift pattern.
Absence Rate
Absence Rate
Do you know how to calculate your Absence Rate?
This book not only includes easy to follow examples of how to calculate your Absence Rate, but also shows you how to use your Absence Rate to predict how absences will occur in the future.
This book not only includes easy to follow examples of how to calculate your Absence Rate, but also shows you how to use your Absence Rate to predict how absences will occur in the future.
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