Multi-location Scheduling and Employee Sharing Strategies

This guide discusses multi-location scheduling and employee sharing strategies for organizations in the retail, food service, and hospitality sectors. It outlines the benefits of optimizing labor pools across multiple locations, especially during peak seasons when staffing challenges arise. The document explains how sharing employees can enhance flexibility, allowing staff to pick up additional shifts or swap shifts across locations, thus improving work-life balance and employee engagement. It also presents insights from a case study on Aimbridge Hospitality, which adopted a flexible scheduling approach using UKG technology to enhance workforce management. The guide further evaluates the advantages of flexible scheduling, the importance of employee input in scheduling, and the potential strategies for implementing employee sharing effectively. It concludes with considerations for scheduling across multiple locations and the impact of such strategies on employee retention and operational efficiency.