Insights and What if

Your briefing

Insights looks at the roster running now and the ones starting in the next six weeks. Four numbers sit at the top: things to look at, open shifts, people with a heavy period, and planned cost (or soft warnings, without pay access). Then Your briefing lists findings, most urgent first, each with a button.

Red is urgent, amber is worth a look, grey is for your information. People who can change the roster also get the same briefing by email on Monday mornings, without names. They can turn it off under Account → Notifications.

Fatigue

Each person gets a fatigue score out of 100. It adds up patterns that are legal but heavy:

• Nights in a row beyond two
• Short turnarounds: under 14 hours between shifts
• Weeks over 45 hours
• Working days in a row beyond five
• More than six night shifts in the period

Hours against contract

Planned hours against contract hours for each person. The black mark is 100% of contract. Red is over 110%, grey is under 90%.

Fairness

Nights and weekends per person. The dark part of each bar is this period; the light part is earlier periods. Top: nights. Bottom: weekends.

What if scenarios

Press What if… (people who can change the roster). Try up to three scenarios side by side, and nothing changes until you apply one.

Not the same as What if on the roster, where you try changes by hand. See What if: try changes first.

• Hire someone: a role, hours a week and pay.
• Close on a day, like Sundays.
• Change the night length.
• Raise the short-notice bonus.
• Move a shift's start.

Press Compare. eTime plans each scenario again, like Generate does, and compares it with planning again without changes. So you see the effect of the change alone: cost, overtime, open shifts, rule breaks, fairness, wishes not met, tiring runs and shifts that change person.

A scenario made only of Close on a day can be applied with Apply this scenario. Other changes are a try-out: eTime tells you where to make them for real.