The Trade Board is a great feature within eSolve, enabling employees offer up a job/shift if they unavailable. Employees can offer a job or shift up to a trade board. Other employees can access the trade board, and take-up the offered job if they are available.
The employee trade board is an essential asset for staff members and the organisation. This efficient board manages the shift of the employees and exchange their job or tasks for the agreed time and task.
This board facilitates staff members to change or swap their shifts. It interchanges the task and shift between two members who have the same skills and level of output. The employee trade board always ensures that no work is impacted when the employee is unavailable to perform the task.
This feature is beneficial for employees and they can be notified when such a job is offered. Using the employee trade board, the staff member can offer a future job allocation or shift with any qualified member. Then qualified personnel can take up the offered job. The qualified staff members can only view the offered job. However, when a member takes up the trade the identity is kept anonymous to the original employee.
The eSolve Trade Board allows the staff members such as nurses to set some permissions in the preferences. These permissions define the ability to perform the job and the job description and the rule and constraints involved. A trade block is set up by considering factors such as employee permission, job type, permission, individual permission and the deadline of the trade.
The Trade board emphasises utilising the resources within the system. To prevent from applying the trade after the deadline, the Trade Board automatically removes those trades after the deadline is met. The original staff member is notified about the removal of trade to aware that they are scheduled to do it.
The organisational rules can be set as a prerequisite while filtering and calculating the availability of employees. Each trade must qualify all the data rules and constraints. The offered trade goes through all of these filters for the visibility on trade board.
The trade board also informs the supervisors of both the trading parties to ensure a smooth transition and management. All the updates related to the trade records are sent out to the staff member and the respective supervisors. This enhances transparency regarding allocation like the shift or task offered and accepted or removed.
Swapping the allocation:
The employees can easily swap their allocation of a task or shift when the job is offered. The job offered is visible to qualified employees so that the work is not impacted. The nurse shift planner works in the same way.
Anonymous trade:
When the trade is accepted, the trading employee identity is kept anonymous. This helps in balancing out the trades and prevents any staged alterations or sabotaging.
Auto disappearance:
When the trade is expired, the trade board automatically eliminates the entries and records of the trade from the trade board. This notifies the employee that they are scheduled for the job and prevents any last-minute changes.
Parameter preference:
The offered trade is re-assessed against the organisation’s rules and constraints. While accepting the offer the traded member will be verified against the same to ensure the rules and regulations are satisfied.
The trade board is an integral function of employees. The employees could control over future work opportunities with increased productivity and efficiency. It also empowers them by giving them control and explore new offers and accept different opportunities within the organisation.