Timebar scheduling
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Timebar Scheduling is a method of Staff Scheduling that may be adopted by organisations with highly variable staff scheduling requirements, where the demand for staffing levels can vary quite dramtically from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, week to week, and month/season to month/season.
A primary aim of Timebar Scheduling is to make it easy to mentally picture how many people are scheduled again individual scheduling time-slots.
To implement Timebar Scheduling, Employee/Staff names/identifiers are listed on the verticle axis of a page, while horizontal 'time-bars' are drawn perpendicular to the staff's name. The start-time and length of each work period allocated to the staff member is represented by the time-bar.
The following diagram demonstrates a time-bar schedule with 15 staff allocated shifts represented by time-bars.
Proponents of Timebar Scheduling us the tool to:
1. Calculate the number of staff allocated to any one particular time period within the schedule.
2. Visualise when staff are allocated to 'breaks', including how many staff have been allocated a break at the same time.
