Shift Offsets

Shift offsets are the time defined at the start and/or end of a shift for transitional activities, such as briefing the employee taking over the activities of another employee who is going home. Shift offsets are defined at the job/team level in minutes and can be working or non-working, paid or non-paid, depending on the employer’s needs and policies.

Sub-teams do not inherit shift offsets from their parent teams.

Shift offsets can be configured in two ways:

  • At the staffing requirements level, to create unstaffed shifts with offsets.
  • Within the MVS, where the offsets are activities (similar to other shift/assignment activities) except that they must come at the start and/or end of a shift.

Before you can apply offsets, the offset activities and their durations by Job/Team need to be defined. For more information, see Defining a Shift Offset Activity and Defining Shift Offset Durations by Job and Team.

When a shift with offsets is created, you have the opportunity to configure those offsets or to decline to use the offsets. If you decline, any further MVS assignment operations (including Book Off, Copy, Swap, Remove, Auto-Assign, or any manual assignment operation) will cause the system to prompt you for the offsets again. At each prompt, you can cancel your attempted save operation and configure offsets, or continue the operation without configuring them.