Bureacracy is dead. Long live Adhocracy!
Some time ago, in fact over 5 years ago, a white paper was published giving good reasons why managers should be interested in workforce deployment and staff scheduling. I guess there are fewer of...
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Short Staffing “We can get away with it…”
The recent CQC report into the care of the elderly has raised quite serious concerns as we are told our complicated world gets ever more complicated and our means to deliver good services weakens by...
View ArticleUK police overtime, causes, effects and cure.
The police are first in line for sweeping cuts, in particular with regard to spiralling overtime costs. Out trot the usual calls for review teams, working parties, regulation overhaul and a host of...
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37.5 hour week and 12 hour shifts. Can it be done?
Well the short answer is YES! We regularly get asked, especially by those working in the public sector, what is the answer to the 37.5 hour week and 12 hour shifts? Usually from people who have spent...
View ArticleLocal Government 37.5 hour week with12 hour shifts – Intellicate Schedule24...
Since our last post; 37.5 hour week and 12 hour shifts. Can it be done? We had many requests for a video tutorial and example shift patterns. You will be pleased to know, we have uploaded Local...
View ArticleLatest research “Night shifts can ‘double’ breast cancer”
“Women who work long-term night-shift jobs … are twice as likely to develop breast cancer,” is a headline which will naturally cause concern for many women working night shifts. And like most things a...
View ArticleFriendly shift patterns for starting a family.
This is the second publication in as many weeks about the latest research reinforcing the impact shift working has on women’s’ health. Last week it was about night shifts doubling the risks of breast...
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The NHS staff shortage? –‘manage it or measure it’ that is the question.
Around six years ago the NHS was being challenged to reduce costs by around £1.52B and an estimated reduction in 30,000 staff. If reports of today are to be believed the targeted savings are now £20B....
View ArticleFinding out all there is to know about 12 hour shifts.
The average ‘project’ costs associated with working out the change to a 12 hour system comes in at around £17.9k per month. Of course I’m not talking about an individual ‘doodling’ around with various...
View ArticleNight shift a causal link to significant risk factors.
Research has established a causal link among night shift workers and the incidence of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a condition that presents a significant risk condition for high blood...
View ArticleAutomating EEC Working Time Directive- Schedule24 Resource Manager
The EEC Working Time Directive is well documented and commented upon. It is not that easy to make sure you are complying, not without a fair amount of paper and pencil calculations anyway. For small...
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Staff Nursing Levels
For those of you that have been following my commentary about staff nursing levels highlighted in what has become a string of scandals in the NHS, it probably comes as no surprise there is now the call...
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Free Staff Cost Benefit Analysis Report
I had a discussion recently involving a Consultant Occupational Health Physician and Occupational Psychologist about why business owners – not managers that’s something quite different - ’ignore’...
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How Expensive Is Your Shift Pattern?
All shift patterns have a cost. None are cheap. Some offer good value. And others are downright expensive. A shift pattern determines your staff deployment strategy, or put another way it controls your...
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Supermarket shifts ’cause anxiety and insecurity’
A recent study by Alex Wood and Brendan Burchell from the department of sociology at Cambridge delivers more evidence about what many of us have suspected. Supermarket ‘super flexible’ working...
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Flexible working comes into law
The right to flexible working has been extended in law to be a fundamental and universal right for UK employees. For many this threatens to become an issue; and it need not be so. This article is not...
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