Configure Labor Measures

You can use labor measures to determine what employee property is used in the People feature to track employees’ productivity value, the unit it’s measured in, and the standard contribution that Dayforce uses by default for unfilled shifts or employees without a defined productivity value.

You configure labor measures in Plan Setup > Labor Measures. For performance-based scheduling you need to configure at least one labor measure, but you can also configure multiple labor measures if your organization tracks several types of productivity and performance targets.

For each labor measure that you configure, you can control how Dayforce applies it. The Applies at all times checkbox controls how Dayforce tracks which shifts contribute toward the performance targets that are tracked using the labor measure. Typically, this checkbox is cleared so that only shifts where employees work a specific activity contribute their productivity to the performance target. For example, for the ‘sales’ labor measure, only employees performing the ‘sales’ activity contribute their productivity to the sales target. This allows users to schedule employees to work shifts that don’t contribute to the sales target, even though they have a sales capacity. Assistant managers have productivity values configured in Dayforce, but their sales per hour only contribute to the sales target when they are performing the Sales activity. When managers aren’t scheduled to work on the sales floor, they aren’t selling and therefore their sales per hour productivity value shouldn’t contribute to the sales target. Select the checkbox to configure Dayforce so that employees working a shift always contribute their productivity value, regardless of what work they are performing. The existing ‘Employee Hours’ labor measure is configured with the checkbox selected because employees always contribute labor hours when they are working, regardless of the activity they are performing.

To configure labor measures:

1. Go to Plan Setup > Labor Measures and click Add.
2. Enter a name and, optionally, a description for the labor measure.
3. In the Units drop-down list, select a unit.
4. Note: This should be the unit that you created in the performance-based setup process. It represents the metric that productivity and performance is measured in. See Configure Units.
4. (Optional) In the Employee Property drop-down list, select a property.
5. Note: This should be the property that you created in the setup process. It represents the field that employee productivity values are specified in. See Record Employee Productivity.
5. In the Standard Contribution Per Hour field, enter a number to specify the productivity that employees without a defined productivity contribute by default. Dayforce also uses the specified value when determining how much productivity an unfilled shift contributes to a location’s performance targets.
6. (Optional) Select the Applies at all times checkbox.
7. Enter a cross-reference code in the Reference Code field. This code must be unique and must not contain special characters.
8. Specify the labor measure’s effective dates using the Start Date and End Date fields. This date range defines when Dayforce uses the labor measure. In most cases, these fields are left with their default dates.
9. Click Save.