Staff requirements

Within the location setup for department type locations, you can specify staff requirements. These staff requirements list out the jobs and activities that are required for that department and can generate workload based on drivers or minimums. For information on configuring staff requirements, see the LFSO Implementation and Administration Guide.

By creating a staff requirement for each department, you can specify the staff requirement as the “Default” requirement. Any shifts that are created within that department will have the job and activity defaulted in the View a Schedule page, thus saving time. Employees who belong to the team that is associated with that department location will also have their department, job, and activity defaulted based on their home team assignment. This defaulting functionality streamlines schedule editing.

If you choose to use staff requirements to generate workload, that workload is shown in the View a Schedule page in the coverage graph section as the “needed” hours. This option can assist in the allocation of resources against the required hours.