Overview

Shift bidding is a process whereby one or more employees can express interest in working an open shift. The employees will receive a notification when such shifts are available and will be invited to respond using Team Xpress. Multiple employees may bid on the same shifts, and any employee may bid on multiple shifts. The scheduler can choose which employees will be invited to bid and they can review the bid results (whether an employee submitted a bid, declined the bid or did not respond). Following this, the scheduler can assign the shift out to one of the employees who submitted the bid.

Shift Bidding is somewhat similar to Self-Scheduling, the primary difference being that with Self Scheduling the employee acquires the shift immediately, whereas with Shift Bidding the employee indicates that he would like to work the shift, but does not actually get the shift until it is assigned by the scheduler.

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(6) Display shift fields in Team Xpress - This panel allows the scheduler to choose which fields to display in Team Xpress, please note if the fields have not been selected in the Shift grouping (4) then they will not be available here

Settings - Notifications - Shift Bidding

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Select the shifts, and the employees who will be invited. Click on the shift group, select the employee search rule (it's possible that not all your search rules will be available, depending on how they are configured), The rule will display the employees who are eligible to receive the invitations. Select the relevant employees, and the then press Invite to bid at the bottom of the screen.

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