Add employees to an auction at the same time

Use this method to add waiting employees to an auction when you want all employees to have equal opportunity to bid on schedules. The employee whose bid is approved first, gets the schedule. Any other bids for the same schedule become an invalid request.

Alternate method to add employees

You can add employees to an auction one after another.

Before you begin

Create a shift bidding auction
Create an auto-processing rule to define criteria for automatic approval of shift Work period in WFM that has a definite length. bids. Otherwise, bids must be approved manually which is time consuming.

Create an autoprocessing rule for shift bidding requests

Procedure

Go to Request Management. Under Schedule Auctions, select Employees.
In the left pane, select an auction.
Optional: In the lower-left corner of this pane, change the number of employees displayed on a page.
Decide how many waiting employees you want to add, and do one of the following:
- To add individual employees, select one or more employees. If needed, click the right arrow to move to other pages and locate employees.
- To add all employees, no action is needed.
Click Add to Auction.
Complete the Add to Auction window.
1. From the Add list, do one of the following:
  - If you are adding individual employees, click Only Selected and Waiting.
  - If you are adding all employees, click All Waiting.
2. Enter the Deadline.
Click Save.
- When you chose All Waiting, all waiting employees on all pages are added.
- When you chose Only Selected and Waiting, all employees that meet this criteria on the current page are added.