Open seats enable self-scheduling on shifts

When you would like your team to pick their own shifts, you can do so by opening the seats on the event cards. This autonomous planning method removes the need to communicate availability for work. Employees don't need to provide their availability. Which planners then use to create the schedule. Instead, planners create the schedule and set the required number of people. Employees then select the shifts they want to work.

Click on the event to go to the event details. Head to Roles. Then toggle the switch on Open seats to turn it on.

If you only want certain employees who can perform a specific role to be able to schedule themselves. You add the role to the group. This will create a filter that only allows people with that role to add themselves to the event. In case an employee has several roles that they can perform. The employee can choose which role they pick when self-scheduling.

To make sure you don't get too many people on popular shifts. And not enough people on less popular ones. You can use Open seats in combination with Required seats. When the max. limit on the required people is reached, no other people will be able to select the shift. It will no longer be visible as an option in their My Schedule.

That's how easy it is to start self-scheduling with Soon.

Now go and let your team schedule their own shifts. Remember, with great responsibility comes amazing employee engagement!