Fixed hours
Standard hours for one employee or a whole department, with their history: a change never rewrites past months.
Shifts and working hours
Shift planning: organise working hours, then check what really happened
A shift plan is only useful when compared with what actually happened. Linked to the punches, it brings out lateness, absences and time beyond the shift.
Your hours
The working patterns covered
Rotating teams
Morning, afternoon, night: each day of each employee carries its own shift.
Night shifts
A shift starting in the evening and ending the next day, counted on the right day.
Special periods
Ramadan hours and public holidays, with no manual calculation.
Building a plan
Several ways to prepare shift plans
- Day by day, for one employee, from the grid or the daily report
- Several employees, several dates in one entry, for a whole department
- By month, ticking the weekdays concerned
- By week, giving each day a shift from the catalogue (morning, evening, night…)
- By Excel import, an employees × dates grid: problem rows are flagged before saving
Rotations are prepared week by week from the standard shifts, or loaded in one go from Excel.
Planned vs actual
The shift plan checked against punches
Lateness
Measured against the shift planned that day, not a single theoretical schedule.
Overruns
Hours beyond the plan, spotted day by day.
Leave built in
An employee on leave that day gets no shift; leave added afterwards takes its place.
Visible to employees
Everyone sees their plan in their space: shifts, leave, absences and rest days, each in its own colour.
Legal framework
Rest and night work: key figures
The Labour Code provides for a weekly rest of at least 24 consecutive hours (article 205) and defines night work as work done between 9 pm and 6 am in non-agricultural activities (article 172). Shift planning helps you respect these rules, team by team.
Frequently asked questions
Can we manage 2x8 or 3x8 shift teams?
Yes. Each day of each employee carries its shift: the rotation is prepared week by week from the standard shifts, or imported from Excel for a whole month.
Is the shift plan compared with clocked hours?
Yes, that is the whole point: lateness, absences and overruns are measured against the shift planned that day.
Can a plan be changed during the month?
Yes. The hours actually clocked stay unchanged.
Are Ramadan working hours handled?
Yes, like public holidays: these special periods are taken into account when days are calculated.
Related pages
Attendance and lateness
Hours worked, lateness and time beyond the shift.
Leave and absences
Requests, approvals, balances and supporting documents.
Multi-site
All your locations in a single platform.
Shift plans finally connected to the shop floor
Show us your current rotations: we show you how they are prepared in EASY-STAFF.