Staffing guide explained
The Staffing Guide is a recommendation of how many labor hours to schedule each day for each department.
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What are productive and non-productive hours?
Productive hours are paid hours for work connected to a department. Non-productive hours are a paid absence, i.e., there is a cost for the hours although…
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What is a cost driver?
A cost driver is an operational factor in the department that effects the need for labor, whether that is guests, rooms or revenue. For example, Housekeeping…
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What is min/max hours?
The Min and Max settings allow you to set the minimum and maximum hours required in a department for each day of the week. Using this…
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What is SMART?
The SMART forecast in PMI is a daily breakdown of your monthly productivity/hours forecast . The SMART forecast allocates the month forecast to each day based…
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Why is the total number of hours for the month too low/high?
The cockpit is only a mirror of what is imported from your timekeeping system. The first thing you need to check is whether all hours have…
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