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

Rudy Hung
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Rudy Hung: Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Management Science, 1994, vol. 40, issue 2, 280-284

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: workforce scheduling; shift work; novel schedules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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