
{"id":201,"date":"2018-05-01T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:36:14","slug":"f-availability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/f-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter Availability for the Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Where do I enter my staff&#8217;s availability?<\/h3>\n<p>Employees usually sign in and enter their own work time preferences (when they prefer to work, or when they prefer not to work). \u00a0You can also allow them to enter their own \u201cCannot Work\u201d times by allowing that option on your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-settings\/h-co-settings-emp-perm\/\"><strong>SETTINGS<\/strong>&gt;Global Employee Permissions<\/a>\u00a0page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ssenteravail.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ssenteravail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ssenteravail.png 700w, https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ssenteravail-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that setting preferences has no affect on your already assigned shifts.<\/p>\n<p>These preferences can be used later by <a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-autofill\/\">AutoFill<\/a> or when you are editing or adding a shift to create the best work assignments each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Employees can also sign in and request &#8220;Time Off&#8221; which you as the manager can approve or deny.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-time-off-cannot\/h-emp-ent-timeoff\/\">Approving time off<\/a>\u00a0can remove them from any conflicting shifts automatically.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to enter all Cannot Work times yourself, you can do so by clicking the pencil icon next to the employee name to open the employee details page and then on the second tab,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-let-emps-signin\/h-emp-prefs\/\">Schedules &#8211; Preferences<\/a>, you can first click to enter their\u00a0<strong>Repeating Weekly\u00a0<\/strong>Preferences. Set those days and times that are their regular preferences, and then if they have preferences for a specific date that are different, you can click the button to <strong>Set Date Specific<\/strong>\u00a0Preferences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/2-Enter-Availability-For-The-Staff.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3386 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/2-Enter-Availability-For-The-Staff.png\" alt=\"employees list view employee set repeating weekly pref\" width=\"700\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/2-Enter-Availability-For-The-Staff.png 700w, https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/2-Enter-Availability-For-The-Staff-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: \u00a0WhenToWork\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-firstsched\/h-add-first-shifts\/\"><strong>does not create shifts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0based on employee preferences,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-autofill\/\"><strong>it assigns shifts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0based on those preferences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">availability availability availability\u00a0 can suprevisor add availability supervisor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do I enter my staff&#8217;s availability? 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