7.4 Bouncing
Bouncing
Bouncing (or shift sensing) can be applied when employees work different shifts at unusual intervals, (E.g. morning, afternoon and night) and managing these shift changes becomes difficult and time consuming. Bouncing allows the system to determine what shift the person is on based on their clockings.
Firstly, a Day Program will need to be created for all of the different shifts that could be worked.
Example:
A morning, afternoon and night shift are the only three possibilities for an employee to work. The bouncing configuration needs to be setup for the earliest shift (morning). To configure this, first click on ’Enable day bouncing’ on the Profile tab for the morning Day Program, then click ‘Add Bounce’ on the Bouncing tab and JT will insert the ‘Assign clockings to this Day’ time from the Profile tab as the first ‘From’ time. JT automatically uses the current (morning) Day Program as the first Day Program to use in the table on the left. Click ‘Add Bounce’ again to add all additional entries to this table.
In operation JT uses the first clocking of the day to decide which Day Program to bounce to. I.e. Any first clocking of the day between the first and second entries in the table will use the first (current) Day Program and apply its rules, and any clocking between the second and third entries will use the second Day Program in the table etc.
In the event of two shifts beginning at similar times but ending at different times, bouncing can still take place, by using the Out clockings. JT will use the last/end of shift clocking to decide which Day Program to use. To achieve this, select ‘Use the ‘Last’ clocking of the day to bounce’ on the right for the selected day on the left, then select the later-ending shift from the drop-down menu and then insert the ‘If last clocking is after’ time. (Only day programs sharing the same “start of day time” will be included in this list). If the last clocking of the day occurs after this time specified, then JT will bounce to the new Day Program specified.
To complete the bouncing setup, all of the early Day Programs will need to be configured for bouncing (Saturday morning and Sunday morning).
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