Enabling Business Managers to Automate Staff Scheduling for Improving Business Profitability

This white paper describes how business goals are achieved when business managers are provided with the tools to deliver staff scheduling strategy. It describes how costs can be controlled and harmony in the workplace maintained.
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Staff Scheduling: The neglected management skill?

This document highlights the problems businesses face, and how the right workforce scheduling software should engage the management skills of line supervisors and business managers when and where it is needed most.
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Home Office Study: Police Resource Management

This Home Office Report in partnership with Accenture provides an in-depth study about police resource management in the UK, including references to other law enforcement agencies in the USA and Europe. Key findings include variable shift arrangements offer the best supply-demand match and provide up to 70% more officers on duty at peak times.
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Coping with Shift Work: The impact on women´s health

Sue Woolfenden Q.P.M., B.A., Ph.D. brings many years operational experience and disciplined research into the issues surrounding the physiological effects and specific hazards among women shift workers. Woolfenden outlines what can be done about reducing these effects and highlights corporate responsibility for designing good schedules.
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Beyond Boundaries: The emerging work culture of independence and responsibility

Flexible working is probably one of the most over-used and least understood phrases in business. It's up there with blue-sky thinking and synergy. What is meant by flexible working is rarely straight forward, the phrase can be interpreted in very different ways by employees and organisations. This Orange Future Enterprise Coalition report provides a comprehensive account about the market drivers and flexible working strategies emerging in today's competitive markets.
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ACAS: Changing patterns of work

This whitepaper is intended to assist anyone dealing with or affected by Changing Patterns of Work. It is one of a series of booklets and handbooks designed to give impartial advice on employment matters to employers, employees and their representatives.
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