Shift Scheduling

The largest contributor to risks and costs in 24/7 and shift work operations is the shift schedule. With sub-optimal shift scheduling or rota patterns, employee performance is impaired and this negatively impacts shift worker productivity, absenteeism, employee turnover, health and safety. The process of finding the right shift scheduling solution can be tough, and this is where CIRCADIAN’s experience and solutions are invaluable.

• Shift Schedule Optimisation - Shift workers care about their shift schedule almost as much as their pay packet, and sometimes more. There are so many opinions and false assumptions that finding the best shift schedule for your plant can be a real challenge. For over 27 years CIRCADIAN has guided thousands of companies through a well-defined and highly effective process that creates employee buy-in and achieves management objectives.
• Expanding to 7-Day Operations – CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA helps companies realise the considerable returns and increased efficiency of 24/7 operations without losing the critical support of the workforce. By helping with all steps from developing the business case and transition plan, selling it to the employees and implementing win-win operationally efficient shift scheduling and employee policies we ensure that the Return On Investment (ROI) is maximised.
• Proportional Staffing – In many operations workload fluctuates more or less predictably hour by hour over the 168 hours in the week. Equally staffed fixed shifts can be a highly inefficient method of shift scheduling. CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA helps 24/7 operations achieve enormous gains by matching employee duty to workload and then devising employee-acceptable shift schedules which maximise employee morale and performance.
• Shift Work Opportunity Assessment - With over 27 years of experience in every conceivable type of shift work operation, we can help you find the low hanging fruit that will bring immediate returns. Managers are often too close to their own operation to see the opportunities, or may only have limited experience of possible alternatives. CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA has the benefit of solving shift scheduling problems every day and knowing where the world-class solutions lie.