April 25th 2024, Release Note: WFM UK | Activity-Based Scheduling: Assigning Multiple Labour Standards to One Job Role

Summary

Release date: April 25th 2024 

• Enabled by default? - No
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - Yes

What’s Changing?

The restriction of assigning more than one Labour Standard to a single job role has been removed. Updates to home and scheduling pages now accurately reflect the aggregated required hours for each job role, streamlining operations and enhancing clarity.

Reason for the Change

The removal of these restrictions addresses operational inefficiencies and user feedback, where the previous limitations required the creation of redundant job roles to meet differing labour standards. This change allows for more accurate scheduling, streamlined operations, and better compliance with labour requirements.

Customers Affected

All Activity-Based Scheduling customers.

Release Notes

An organisation setting will need to be applied by a system administrator.

• From the Scheduling homepage, go to Settings > Organisations
• Select Edit against the required Organisation
• Tick the box against Multiple Labour Standard to one job role and then Save

Fig.1 -Multiple Labour Standards to One Job Role Organisation Setting

• Then go to  Settings > Activity Based Scheduling > Labour Standards 

Now more than one Labour standard can be linked to one job role. 

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• Fig.2 - Two Labour Standards are linked to one job role 

The required hours for the job role will be summed and displayed on the Scheduling page. 

Please note that if the Labour Standards are linked to one activity driver the required hours will be summed also. 

On the homepage, in the Labour Standards Dashboard, the column 'Labour Standard' has been renamed 'Labour Standard/Job Role', where the name of the job role will appear if more than one Labour Standard is assigned to it.

Fig.3 - Home page changes - adding the job role