What is flexible work time?

With flexible work time, employees are able to decide within certain general conditions (agreed core working time, working hours per week, etc.) when they will work. This means that each employee is working at different times. Flexible work time is supported in Simulation by probability distributions, which are used for calculating the start times of calendar events.

For this, the distribution type (equal distribution, normal distribution, log-normal distribution, exponential distribution, Erlang distribution, triangular distribution, gamma distribution) is selected for the Start time distribution attribute (Simulation attribute type group) of calendar events. Now the start time is calculated together with the Start time attribute every time the calendar event occurs.

Example

Start point 10.00 am and equal distribution distribution with parameters a=0000:00:00:00, b=0000:00:10:00 are selected for a calendar event. The start times are distributed equally between 10.00 am and 10.10 am.

To ensure that the employees always work the same number of hours every time the calendar event occurs, for example, 8 hours every day, a duration should be defined instead of an end time (Date and time dialog). In this case, the end time is calculated in the same way as the start time.

The start time is calculated individually for each employee, regardless of whether the employee is represented by an object or not.

Example

The number 5 has been specified for the Number of employees attribute of an organizational unit, and the Start time distribution attribute of the calendar event has been specified. Different start times are calculated for these 5 employees regardless of whether they have been represented simply as a number of employees or whether they have been modeled as individual objects in the organizational chart.