Employee Scheduler

Employee Scheduler is designed to pick the most efficient schedule, given a matrix of number of employees per hour per weekday. It has a number of varibles to work with, in order to tweak the output, such as number of full-time/part-time employees, which hours they can start at, what kinds of shifts the program picks, etc.

Features/tweakables include:

Professional-grade software, currently used to manage a 100+ employee call center
New schedule generation, or add to an existing employee matrix
Many different schedule types: normal, fragmented, single/double-weekend
Multiple shift types that include variables for: # of hours/days, 1st/2nd break (in mins), and lunch (or "paid lunch")
Generates schedules by the half-hour, lunchs by the 15-minute, breaks by the five-minute
Correction loops to ensure all goals/caps are met
FT/PT minimum/maximums (pick a range to schedule or an exact number)
FT/PT min/max based on shift (1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift)
Starting hours for FT/PT schedules
Minimum/maximum caps on a per-hour basis
Ability to refuse fragmented or double-weekend schedules
Variables to adjust the "friendliness" of the schedules
Efficiency based on a five-minute matrix
Ability to read matrix data on a hourly basis (7x24) or five-minute basis (7x288)
Summary page for statistical information
Extensive documentation

The process generally takes anywhere from 10-45 minutes (depending on how many employees you need), and outputs a CSV file with the schedules. It works for both Windows (using ActivePerl) or UNIX, or pretty much any OS that can run Perl. You can download it in Tar/Gzip format or ZIP format. (Be sure to read the documentation before jumping into it.)

All software on this site was created by Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper of Resonator Software. They are copylefted under the conditions of the GNU Public License (GPL). They can be freely distributed and modified as long as they retain their GPL status.