Dayforce can be configured to support the creation of tasks that impact schedules. Tasks that impact schedules drive the labor demands of their assigned locations.
Tasks created and assigned for a week before the location’s plan has been adjusted, saved, and published contribute their hours to the labor demand. As part of the labor deployment process, initiated when users click Publish in the Plan feature, Dayforce accounts for the hours within assigned tasks when it creates the labor demand curves displayed in Schedules for the users creating the location’s schedule.
Briefly, a task impacts the labor demand in the following way:
- The total hours specified in the task’s definition contributes to the ‘labor pool’ in the labor deployment process.
- The Task Workload Rule spreads the task’s labor pool across its scheduled time. If multiple tasks have the same activity, Dayforce amalgamates them into one labor demand curve. For example, a task scheduled from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM with a fixed duration of 50 hours creates a labor demand curve dictating 10 employees need to be scheduled to work the task’s activity between 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM. Another task, running from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM with a fixed duration of 12 hours, is spread so that three employees are required between 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM. Because the two tasks require the same activity, Dayforce combines the labor demand curve so that 10 employees are required between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM, 11 employees between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM (when the two tasks overlap), and then 3 employees between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
Configuring Dayforce to support tasks driving labor demands involves configuring tasks or task templates and then configuring KPIs.