Method and system for online scheduling and shift management

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor, coupled to the memory, configured to:
• create a rotation by a manager via an admin user interface, wherein the rotation comprises one or more employees as a part of a staff group, work shifts, and a rotation period, wherein each employee of the one or more employees is assigned a predefined shift work credit value and the predefined shift work credit value is added to a corresponding credit wallet balance associated with each employee of the one or more employees, wherein total credit for the staff group remains constant;
• allow a first employee of the one or more employees to bid for avoiding a work shift via an employee user interface, wherein the bid comprises a bid credit value, wherein the bid credit value is a part of the credit wallet balance;
• receive the bid for avoiding the work shift from the first employee and the one or more employees;
• allow a second employee of the one or more employees to sign up via the employee user interface to take the bid work shift before auto-allocation;
• determine whether the second employee or the one or more employees self-assign the bid work shift before auto-allocation;
• assign the bid work shift to the second employee if the second employee self-assigned the bid work shift;
• or auto assigning the bid work shift to the one or more employees based on an auto-allocation technique if no self-assignment occurs;
• reschedule the work shifts of the first employee, and the second employee or the employee assigned with the auto allocated bid work shift;
• and
• adjust the credit wallet balance of the first employee, and the second employee or the employee assigned with the auto allocated bid work shift.