Intellicate Software Releases Schedule24™ Excel® Add-in
Today Intellicate announced the release of a Schedule24™ Excel® Add-in, a new addition of the company’s flagship employee and workforce software, Schedule24. With this new add-in application, Microsoft...
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Intellicate Launches First Automatic Shift Pattern Add-in for Microsoft Excel®
New Add-in Quickly Creates Shift Patterns with Excel® Spreadsheets, Eliminating Programming and Analysis Hassles. LONDON, United Kingdom February 13, 2013. Intellicate Ltd, developer of Workforce...
View Article7 Important Factors to Consider When Moving to a 12 Hour Shift Pattern
As a manager of a business you will encounter at some point requests from the workplace to move from 8 hour to 12 hour shift working. Having spent many years observing and documenting the effects of...
View ArticleAvoid the Most Common Workplace Stress Generators
Another and latest poll by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) reinforces “hours & workload” as the biggest stress generator next to “at risk” of...
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Employee Scheduling is Dangerous…
In the wrong hands! Employee scheduling is probably the most complex task a team leader or line manager will have to contend with in the workplace. It is also the most important because it has direct...
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Friendly Shift Patterns
This is the second publication in as many weeks about the latest research reinforcing the impact shift working has on women’s’ health. Last week it was about night shifts doubling the risks of breast...
View ArticleFinding out all there is to know about 12 hour shifts.
The average ‘project’ costs associated with working out the change to a 12 hour system comes in at around £17.9k per month. Of course I’m not talking about an individual ‘doodling’ around with various...
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Are 12 hour shifts cheaper than 8 hour shifts?
Well it depends! Given the same staff headcount and the same number of production hours there is no difference in operating costs between staff schedules based on 12 hour shifts and 8 hour shifts. That...
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How Expensive Is Your Shift Pattern?
All shift patterns have a cost. None are cheap. Some offer good value. And others are downright expensive. A shift pattern determines your staff deployment strategy, or put another way it controls your...
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Supermarket shifts ’cause anxiety and insecurity’
A recent study by Alex Wood and Brendan Burchell from the department of sociology at Cambridge delivers more evidence about what many of us have suspected. Supermarket ‘super flexible’ working...
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