Microsoft Teams is introducing an exciting new feature in public preview – Open Shifts Across Locations in Shifts for Microsoft Teams. This feature is designed to provide flexibility and efficiency for frontline managers and workers, empowering businesses to better manage staffing while giving employees more control over their schedules.
For frontline managers, this feature allows them to offer open shifts across multiple teams and locations, helping to balance workforce needs, fill last-minute gaps, and enhance customer satisfaction. By enabling the Open Shift Across Locations toggle in the Settings tab, managers can post open shifts that employees from other locations can request, ensuring that their store or site is always fully staffed. Managers will receive notifications when employees from other locations request shifts, enabling them to easily approve or decline requests. Once approved, workers from other locations will seamlessly appear in the schedule as external employees, simplifying staff tracking across locations.
Frontline workers benefit from increased flexibility with the Open Shifts Across Locations feature, enabling them to pick up open shifts at different locations that align with their schedules. Workers can view open shifts at other sites and submit requests to pick up shifts. Upon approval by the manager at that location, the shift will be added to their schedule.
This new feature aims to optimize staffing, enhance worker flexibility, and improve overall operational efficiency. To access this feature and other unreleased features in Teams, interested users can join the public preview program by following the steps provided on the Microsoft Learn page dedicated to the public preview in Microsoft Teams.
Stay tuned for the launch of this powerful new feature to public preview and revolutionize the way frontline managers and workers manage shifts and schedules across locations.
