8-Hour Shift Schedules: Pros, Cons, and Opportunities for Your Business
Feb 7, 2017 1:03:19 PM / byLarry Struckman
Are you operating a nearly non-stop business? This is quite the undertaking -- demanding excellent leadership, foresight, and planning from management, as well as commitment, dedication, and flexibility from staff members. Not only should you make sure that your staff is healthy, happy and productive within a demanding work environment, you also have to deal with complex financial issues associated with running this type of business. What’s more complicated is managing the shift schedule of a round-the-clock workforce. The solution? Implement an 8-hour shift schedule with rotating work shifts. A rotating 8-hour schedulehas multiple benefits for restaurant and hospitality businesses. While many industry veterans understand how it works, others are new to the idea. This post will dive into how 8-hour scheduleswork: including the pros, cons, and how to implement an 8-hour work shift schedule. Let’s dive in! 8-hour shifts that provide 24/7 coverage for your business by maximizing the number of consecutive days employees have off, while still maintaining they work 40 hours per week. There are multiple types of 8-hour schedulesyou can implement at your place of business: including 8-hour day, 8-hour swing, and 8-hour night shifts. It’s really about maximizing your schedule for efficiency for your business and your employees. There are many advantages of 8-hour shift schedules, for both the employee and you (the employer or shift manager). They are as follows: We’re here to save the day. ShiftNote’s state-of-the-art technology allows you to customize your operation’s scheduling to accommodate 8-hour shift schedule blocks, or any shift-scheduling model that works best for your business. Our cloud-based employee scheduling software is a workforce management tool that makes creating schedules for any size business simple. Set and forget your scheduling process, saving you energy, time, and money. In fact, you can create a set of schedules and duplicate it as manay times as you want, keeping important shift information and employee specifications all in one place. To set an 8-hour shift schedule, for example, you could use ShiftNote like so… Then you can use our Online Manager’s Logbook to log all your shift notes electronically, so you can access them anywhere -- even on your phone! It allows you to improve communication to your staff, maintain accountability, and measure important data for future insights.What Are Rotating 8-hour Shift Schedules?
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Written by Larry Struckman
Passionate about setting up systems and procedures that assure success, training, consulting, growing sales, strategic planning, creating "raving fan" customer service and just about anything related to food service. 25+ years in food and sales as well as growing hundreds of concepts with different operators (I have seen them all). I enjoy cooking, computer software, Taekwondo and spending time with my family. We started ShiftNote in 2007 to help organizations like yours create a better platform for shift-to-shift communication across their organization. Our purpose is to serve you with the best online digital logbook and employee scheduling software on the market so you can spend more time focusing on growing your business.