Scheduling Shifts
People who work shifts and 24/7 schedules care deeply about their work schedules.
Choosing Shift Schedules
Finding the best shift schedule for your facility is hard, because there are so many stakeholders with strong opinions.
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People who work shifts and 24/7 schedules care deeply about their work schedules. You can only achieve the best shift schedule through a logical, systematic search for what is optimal for your business efficiency and for the needs of your shift workers.
Adjusting to Shift Work
Without proper training employees often find it hard to adapt to working non-traditional hours.
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Shift schedules affect nearly every aspect of an employee’s work and family life. Moreover, without proper training employees often find it hard to adapt to working non-traditional hours.
Therefore, it is important to provide information to employees on how to adapt to a shift work schedule so that they can try to minimise the day-to-day difficulties associated with shift work lifestyles.
Educating Managers
Managing a 24/7 schedule is an art they don’t teach in business school. It pays to have your managers understand the best 24/7 management practices.
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A 24/7 business is very different from a 9-5 Monday to Friday workplace – and so is managing it. Many factors contribute to that difference, including:
- Reduced management – employee contact
- Increased family/social stresses on the workers
- Increased risk of employee impairment because of fatigue
Reducing or Expanding Operations
Whether reducing from 7 days to 5 day schedules, or increasing from 5 days to 7 days, it is critical to bring employees into the process of designing work schedules to achieve fuller capacity utilisation.
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In today’s global economy, many plants operating on traditional 5-day production schedules are finding it difficult to compete. Sooner or later comes the realisation that something must be done and that more efficient utilisation of equipment and human assets must be obtained. This can best be accomplished by expanding the plant to a 7-day continuous operation.