How to assign open shifts to a new employee

What are open shifts?

When an employee leaves, their upcoming shifts can either be transferred directly during the offboarding process, or they remain as open shifts — shifts without an assigned employee.

Transfer shifts during offboarding

The easiest method is to transfer the shifts while you are offboarding the employee. During the offboarding process, you can select a new employee to take over all the shifts at once.

Assign open shifts using the magic wand

If the employee has already been offboarded and the shifts are already open, use the magic wand:

1. Go to the schedule and find the employee you want to assign the shifts to.
2. Hover over the employee's name in the sum column (the left-most column showing total hours).
3. Click Assign shifts when it appears.
4. Click the open shifts the employee should take over — they are assigned immediately.

This way you avoid having to assign each shift individually.