The Weekend Warrior Trap

Weekend Warrior refers to a type of staff scheduling strategy for covering 24/7. At its most basic level, a Weekend Warrior schedule is one that uses two crews to cover all of the weekend work so the rest of the company’s employees don’t have to.  There are several variations to this.  Here are a few [...]

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Making shift assignments

It’s human nature to not like change.  There are a lot of reasons for this, but I’m convinced that one of the “biggies” is fear of the unknown.  People “know” what’s going on now.  They “know” how things work.  Anything different is an unknown. A schedule change is probably the biggest change your workforce will [...]

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