Shift Offsets at the Staffing Requirements Level

This is possible for Day Parts and Day Parts with Intervals modes only.

Before shift offsets can be used or configured at the staffing requirements level, they must first be defined at the job/team level. Otherwise, the offset fields in the staffing requirements are not available and any unstaffed shifts created will have no offsets configured. For information about shift offsets, see Shift Offsets.

Shift offsets cannot be defined when a requirement has the activity defined as an on-call activity using the OC_ACT_NAME parameter. For information about this parameter, see the Registry Parameter Reference Guide.

When working with a team in the staffing requirements which has had offset shift activities and durations defined, the offset fields (Shift Offset Before and Shift Offset After) will toggle between available and grayed out based on your selection in the Job field.

If you select a job that has not had offsets defined, the offset fields will stay unavailable. If you select a job that has had offsets defined, the fields are active and will be propagated with their default durations. You can either generate unstaffed shifts with default offset values or you can edit the default values. Any values you enter must be greater than or equal to 0 and cannot be longer than the shift itself.

Offset shift values are not tacked onto the beginning or end of a shift, but subtract shift durations from the beginning or end. For example, if an employee has an 8 hour shift, but has 30 minute offsets before and after, the supervisor may need to schedule the employee to a 9 hour shift to include the two 30 minute offsets and still have the employee work the entirety of the 8 hour shift.

Shift offsets defined at the job/team level do not extend to sub-teams of the teams used for these definitions.