Multiple-Shift Workforce Scheduling Under the 3–4 Workweek with Different Weekday and Weekend Labor Requirements

Novel workweek arrangements have gained acceptance in many seven-days-a-week operations, such as hospitals and data processing centers. This note considers a multiple-shift workforce scheduling scenario for seven-days-a-week operations under a workweek arrangement called the 3–4 workweek. Our model seeks to minimize the workforce size subject to satisfying staffing requirements and workrules relating to off-days, off-weekends, and work-stretches. We provide an efficient optimal algorithm which is intuitive and simple enough to be implemented by hand.

• 저널Management Science · 40(2) · 280–284
• 토픽Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions · Management Science and Operations Research
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.40.2.280
• 저자Rudy Hung