The Trade Board is a fantastic feature within eSolve that enables an employee to offer up a job/shift if they are unable or wish not to do it. An employee can select any future job that they are scheduled for, and offer it up to a trade board. Other employees can access the trade board, and take-up the offered job if they wish.
The trade board is very much an employee-side feature. Employees are notified by the system when another employee offers up a job. Only employees that are qualified for the particular job on offer will receive a notification (as if it was scheduled in a regular way). When an employee takes up the job trade that’s on offer their identity remains anonymous to the original employee.
For peace of mind for managers or shift supervisors, any jobs that remain on the trade-board past the trade deadline are automatically removed from the board. A notification is sent back to the employee who originally offered the job notifying them that the trade offer has been removed and the employee is still scheduled to work the job.
A key function that features in the eSolve trade board is that employee permissions can be set in the preferences. For instance, when an employee offers up a job for trade, the ability to do this can be blocked by predetermined rules or constraints. Employee permission, job type permission, individual permission and trade deadlines are all factors that can be used to set up a ‘trade block’.
eSolve’s pre-determined constraints will filter and calculate the available and unavailable employees for each trade by qualifying all data rules.
The trade board is an intuitive and integral function within eSolve. It empowers employees with control over future work opportunities enabling increased productivity and efficiency. It also offers the opportunity to reduce cost on hiring agency staff as the trade board can act as a buffer layer for supervisors or managers before they contemplate filling gaps with agency workers.