Workforce Scheduling Using the PEAST Algorithm

摘要

Workforce scheduling has become increasingly important for both the public sector and private companies. Good rosters have many benefits for an organization, such as lower costs, more effective utilization of resources and fairer workloads and distribution of shifts. This paper presents a framework and an algorithm that have been successfully used to model and solve workforce scheduling problems in Finnish companies. The algorithm has been integrated into market-leading workforce management software in Finland.