Depending on how Dayforce is configured and how your organization tracks the different requirements and demands for labor, Schedules can show a variety of different labor demand curves and coverage scores.
For example, your location might have two labor demand curves. One defines the amount of staff that you need to schedule during the day to meet the planned sales targets, and the other dictates the minimum staffing requirement of key holders (members of staff that have keys to the store, back office, and cash office). You can switch between the labor demands in the Bar View.
Dayforce shows the coverage icon (
) in the bottom left corner of the schedule. Clicking the coverage icon opens the Select Coverage Display list, from which you can select which coverage you want to view in the schedule. Dayforce shows this button only after you publish your plan and generate the labor curve.
This list controls the labor demand curve that Dayforce shows. The list shows different settings, depending on how Dayforce is configured.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| All labor demand curves | Dayforce shows a blended labor demand curve for the entire location, factoring in demand for each zone, and calculating a coverage score based on all of the labor demand. As you create and edit the schedule, the shown labor demand curve dynamically switches to represent the demand of whatever zone or activity is being scheduled. For example, when scheduling for a location with five zones, each with their own labor demand, as you edit a shift scheduled in the Customer Service zone, Dayforce shows the demand for just the Customer Service zone. When finished, Dayforce switches back to showing the blended labor demand curve for all zones. Select Dynamic to enable this functionality. By default, Dynamic is selected when you first open Schedules. |
| Each individual zone | Show the labor demand for a single zone by selecting the zone’s name. |
| Each activity |
Show the labor demand, if any, for each activity that can be scheduled in each zone. Dayforce shows any activities in the zone nested under the zone. If the Dayforce labor deployment rules haven’t been configured to generate any labor demand for specific activities, any time scheduled to work the selected activity is shown as an overstaffed labor curve, shown entirely in red:
This doesn’t necessarily represent a problem with the location’s schedule. You can schedule employees to work specific activities that don’t contribute to an activity-specific labor demand. In these cases, it’s common that employees are scheduled to activities to organize what they’re working on, as an additional piece of scheduling information beyond the job the employee was scheduled to work. In this case, selecting a specific activity is used to verify how many hours employees have been scheduled to work the selected activity. |
| Each labor measure for performance-based scheduling | If Dayforce is configured to use performance-based scheduling, it shows an option for each labor measure. |
| Each minimum staffing requirement | Show the labor demand generated by each minimum staffing requirement. There is one option for each instance of the Non-Work Staffing Rule configured in Plan Setup > Labor Deployment. Each option is listed under the Minimum Staffing heading. To view the requirements, expand the heading. |
