Multiple-Shift Workforce Scheduling Under the 3–4 Workweek with Different Weekday and Weekend Labor Requirements
Management Science · 1994 · Volume 40 · Issue 2
Abstract
Novel workweek arrangements have gained acceptance in many seven-days-a-week operations, such as hospitals and data processing centers. This note considers a multiple-shift workforce scheduling scenario for seven-days-a-week operations under a workweek arrangement called the 3–4 workweek. Our model seeks to minimize the workforce size subject to satisfying staffing requirements and workrules relating to off-days, off-weekends, and work-stretches. We provide an efficient optimal algorithm which is intuitive and simple enough to be implemented by hand.
Keywords
workforce scheduling, shift work, novel schedules
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