09/09/2026
Absence has a shape, and on most sites it's a stable one. Mondays run one way. The shift after payday runs another.
Where that gets interesting is the buffer. A standby list sized to the monthly average puts the same number of people behind a Tuesday as behind a Monday, which means one of those days is overcovered and the other still goes short.
Moving people rather than adding them closes most of that. Same headcount, sitting where the gap actually is.
We can read your absence data by day and by shift and tell you where that is: https://hubs.li/Q04x5knn0