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Flexible Working - 360/PSO

  • 21 September 2020
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Afternoon,

We are looking at options around flexible working for our engineers, and need to understand the art of the possible.  

Currently PSO/360 takes into account holidays and doesn’t allocate work orders in this scenario but we are wondering whether TOIL could work in the same way? 

Idea being that employees could accrue TOIL and then with management approval use that to work a shorter day or have a day off.

We are currently on IFS Apps 8 and version 5.8.2.22 of 360/PSO.

Any experience others have or suggestions would be appreciated 

Regards

Shaun

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Best answer by tomgreenwood 25 September 2020, 14:46

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Hi Shaun,

If you are using the PSO Resource Planner there are a couple of ways this could be achieved which spring to mind:

  • Create a new unavailability type of TOIL and apply this to your engineers as you would do with a holiday or other unavailability:

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  • Reduce the length of an individual shift to take account of the TOIL via the resource planner e.g.

Kind Regards,

Tom

 

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@tomgreenwood Thanks for your reply.

Would your proposal require an admin to manually enter the above each time or is there a way for it to work like Holiday in that when registered in absence it will automatically show them unavailable in PSO?

There are two aspect to TOIL; working additional hours to incur TOIL (TOIL+) and then when the employee wishes to consume that TOIL to have time off (TOIL- ). 

So an engineer may in advance state that they are going to work an additional 4 hours on a specific day so registers that in IFS absence or time&attendance; we would like IFS and PSO to reflect the additional hours on that day so additional work can be assigned to them.

Then the opposite situation, so when the engineer decides to take time off work through TOIL this is registered in IFS and PSO reflects their unavailability for those specific hours.

Is the above scenario possible in Apps 8 or Apps 10?

Please let me know if you need further clarification to our requirements. 

I would expect other FM companies to have flexible working arrangements in their business, so would be interested to know how they are managing this within IFS.

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Hi Shaun, 

Yes the approach I suggested requires the unavailability period to be manually entered in the resource planner within PSO.  I’m not sure to be honest if this  is covered by the integration from IFS Applications → PSO so hopefully somebody else can help with that.

Kind Regards,

Tom 

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