US 2012/0239450 A1 · SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING WORK SCHEDULES

Abstract

Disclosed are new approaches for scheduling workers providing services to recipients at remote locations, such as home health care services. Work assignments may be organized into shifts associated with one or more workers and one or more recipients. Tasks are associated with the shift and have a status associated therewith that can be updated by a worker. Shifts may be replicated by cutting and pasting or specifying a recurrence definition. The tasks associated with a shift may then be replicated according to the cut-and-paste operation or recurrence definition. The status of tasks may be updated using a voice telephony system. The status of tasks may also be reported from a computer located on the recipient premise. Text and/or voice comments and the task status may be accessible by managers, clients, and concerned parties from a web portal accessible using a computing device, such as a tablet computer.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing employees comprising:

storing, by a server computer, at least one shift having at least one of a first date associated therewith;
associating, by the server computer, a plurality of tasks with the at least one shift;
receiving, by the server computer, an instruction to replicate the at least one shift to create one or more replicated shifts each having a different date associated therewith;
in response to receipt of the instruction to replicate, defining by the server computer, the one or more replicated shifts each having a replication shift date associated therewith;
and
automatically, in response to receipt of the instruction, relating, by the server computer, the plurality of tasks to the one or more replicated shifts.

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System and apparatus for generating work schedules

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System and apparatus for generating work schedules

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