The tasks you create can be configured to impact schedules, by driving labor demands. For tasks that impact schedules, Dayforce accounts for the hours within a location’s assigned tasks during the week when it creates the labor demand curves in Schedules. If Dayforce determines that a location requires 150 hours of labor for its “normal” work, and a 20-hour task was also scheduled for that day, the labor demanded for the day is 170. For these tasks, users creating the location’s schedule in Schedules explicitly schedule employees to work tasks.
Tasks can also be created without tying them to the labor demand for the assigned locations. This is generally a more basic approach to task management, where tasks are shown in a checklist with due dates for location managers, supervisors, or other users with access to review and ensure they’re completed. Employees aren’t explicitly scheduled to work these tasks in Schedules. Instead, users update their tasks with the employees they have assigned to work the task and update the task as it progresses.
This section describes how to create both types of tasks.
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