The Salt Is in the Schedule

Alea D. Reeves

Description

Schedule awareness is crucial to maintain balance. There are so many issues around scheduling, and though there is no perfect schedule unerstanding the importance is crucial.
Did you know?
• Salt was used as a currency to pay Roman soilders.
• The Don Juan Pond is so salty that is does not freeze.
• The word is derived from “salarium” meaning salary.
Where would the world be without salt? Too little salt or too much will cause imbalance. Salt is all around and used in many different ways. Salt plays a crucial role in many things such as the body, food, and on roads.
Just as salt is crucial and necessary so is a schedule. Schedules are crucial components in many things which impacts workflow, supply chain, and time management across industries and day-to-day life. Much like salt, scheduling is an ingredient in life and business. It usually is present in some way or capacity in our lives.

Sujets

• Scheduling
• Economics
• Business

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765234525
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Salt Is In The Schedule
Thoughts on Scheduling
 
 
 
 
Alea D. Reeves
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2022 Alea D. Reeves.
 
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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3451-8 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916769
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 09/09/2022
Contents
Thoughts on Scheduling
Introduction
Chapter 1 Monday – Friday Schedule Pattern
Chapter 2 4 Day Work Week Schedule Pattern
Chapter 3 (4 on 3 off /3 on 4 off) or (2 on -3 off-2 on) Fortnight Schedule Pattern
Chapter 4 4 on 4 off – Schedule Pattern
Chapter 5 3 on 3 off Schedule Rotations
Chapter 6 Fri – Mon Schedule
Chapter 7 Two Day A Week (Sat/Sun) or Variation of Random Days
Chapter 8 20 Hour A Week Part- Time Schedule
Chapter 9 30 Hours A Week
Chapter 10 Transitions in Schedule Patterns
Chapter 11 Work from Home
Chapter 12 Open Schedule – You Pick
Chapter 13 Breaks
Chapter 14 Cost
Chapter 15 Swaps
Chapter 16 Project Scheduling
Chapter 17 Scheduling in The Time of COVID-19
Chapter 18 Final Thoughts on Scheduling
About The Author
Acknowledgements

Did you know?
• Salt was used as a currency to pay Roman soilders.
• The Don Juan Pond is so salty that is does not freeze.
• The word is derived from “salarium” meaning salary.
Thoughts on Scheduling
Disclaimer:
These are just my thoughts. There is no perfect schedule. This was written to all those that work on schedules or rotas. I understand completely!!!!
Next it was written to help because I do understand.
Dedicated to:
My family and friends for all the encouragement. Also to all those that manage and handle schedules/rotas in an often “thankless” job.
Introduction
Where would the world be without salt? Too little salt or too much will cause imbalance. Salt is all around and used in many different ways. Salt plays a crucial role in many things such as the body, food, and on roads.
Just as salt is crucial and necessary so is a schedule. Schedules are crucial components in many things which impacts workflow, supply chain, and time management across industries and day-to-day life. Much like salt, scheduling is an ingredient in life and business. It usually is present in some way or capacity in our lives. Anything from what time one gets up in the morning, to when the bakery opens, or when the bus to the train station arrives. The time a plane flies. The time when a shipment is sent. When you order supplies. The time a nurse does rounds. It is all scheduling, and much like salt, a schedule is essential.
Without schedules chaos would reign. How would you know where to be and when? Or set deadlines to complete assignments? What time would your business operate? When the next rocket can take off? To little focus on scheduling could stretch a business resulting in profit loss. Too much scheduling can cost as well. No scheduling could leave a trail of inefficient activity, which strains the inability to be productive to an extent.
There is no perfect schedule, only the best schedule for the needs of the company or person at a point in time. Scheduling should never be forgotten, but it should never be noticed either.
The chemical compound of salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). The chemical compound of a schedule are the days of the week (Sun – Sat) measured against 24 hours in day. It is in the balance of the components in both that contributes to stability. A schedule is the salt to making things and people move, and this book will take you through my thoughts on scheduling, because my belief is that “the salt is in the schedule”.
As previously mentioned at least some part of all people’s lives are touched by a schedule. More so than ever before scheduling has become crucial especially since the pandemic took over in 2020. However, even prior to the pandemic schedules of all sorts played in the running of transportation, factories, sporting events, restaurants, hospitals to name a few, and of course everyday life. Everything we do in life is fixed to a time to be somewhere or simply etching out the space for doing nothing at all.
The speed at which AI implementation is taking place across these industries may pose issues in some less prepared companies, however staff scheduling is something that will remain a constant. The impact effects on the future workforce with regards to scheduling, job changes, and general transition will continue to develop and evolve in the coming years. It will become increasingly important to remain cognizant of the impact of AI regarding manpower in order to prepare for the changes in the job industries in the future, and for management teams to strategize the best options for employees once technology has been introduced to enhance the business or service in some capacity.
The online business dictionary defines manpower scheduling as “Systematic assignment of appropriate personnel to jobs or tasks in an efficient and effective manner.”
If we can agree that scheduling in all aspects of life dictates the flow of each person’s life whether in business or personal. If we step back and think about it for a second, the world is run on a schedule. There is a time, there is a place, and there are hours in the day all formulated by a schedule either designed personally or by someone else.
A schedule creates a pattern in which you want to run your business and dictates the number of people needed at any given time of day based on business needs. Efficiently managing the schedule components becomes crucial on both the operation and cost side of any type of business.
When do you go to work? Is there a tool or system you log into that tells you when to report? Scheduling is often an “thankless” job because the cause and effect of a color change, or time change impacting not only the business but employees as well often is not thought about.
Scheduling has become even more important especially since the pandemic. Life was set against routines that provided structure in and out of the house. However, 2020 has forced the house to become “the everything” zone which has blended the set routine of our lives. As employers struggle to bring employees back in offices. Employees contemplate and strategize how to stay out of the office for more days of the week. This will continue to result in creative uses of office space or for some industries the disappearance of it.
Setting our lives around a schedule to get things done from sunup to sundown is something that is whether consciously or not plays an important role in maintaining order.
Schedules have an impact capacity on life changes.
Schedules organize workers movements.
Schedules may be used as an incentive tool to businesses.
Schedules can change the workplace.
This book examines:
Some of the pros and cons of different types of schedule patterns.
Nuances that occur when scheduling depending on if the schedule is designed for people or project.
Project management scheduling within a shift pattern for the best results.
Suggestions for schedule balance between work from home and office.
Suggestions for group scheduling for social distancing.
In all this there is no perfect schedule or answer for all people. Every person’s needs are different. What works for one person will not work for another. Industries are different, so where one industry can design the work week around nine to five, other industries need a 24-hour 7 day a week schedule.
No schedule will make