Add employees to an auction one after another

To give some employees an advantage in shift bidding Feature in WFM that allows employees to submit requests (bids) for selected shift assignments., you can automatically add employees to the auction one after another based on a specified order. The employees at the top of the sort order have the opportunity to submit their shift Work period in WFM that has a definite length. bid before employees lower in the sort order.

Processing overview

1. The employee at the top of the sort order is sent an alert message. It notifies them that they are in the auction and provides their bid deadline.

2. After this employee's shift bid is either approved or the maximum time period to place a bid has expired, the next employee is added to the auction. This employee is sent a message with the same information as the first employee.

3. Unless you stop the serial add, the process continues until all designated employees have been added. The designated employees are based on which Add option was selected: Only Selected and Waiting or All Waiting.

Alternate method to add employees

If you prefer, you can add employees to an auction at the same time.

Before you begin 

• Create a shift bidding auction

• Create an autoprocessing rule for shift bidding requests

Procedure 

1. Go to Request Management. Under Schedule Auctions, select Employees.

2. In the left pane, select an auction.

3. Optional: In the lower-left corner of this pane, change the number of employees displayed on a page.

4. 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 the employees.

   • To add all employees, no action is needed.

5. Click Add Serially.

6. Complete the Add Serially 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. From the Order list, click a sort order.

   3. Type the number of Time Interval minutes.

7. Click Save.

   • The Employees page is displayed and the Add Serial button has changed to Stop Serialized Add.

   • The serial add begins.

     • When you chose All Waiting, the serial add begins for all waiting employees on all pages.

     • When you chose Only Selected and Waiting, the serial add begins for employees that meet this criteria on the current page.

8. Optional: To stop adding these employees, click Stop Serial Add and click Yes to the confirm this action.

   To restart the process, click Add Serially again.

Related topics 

Employees page

Add employees to an auction at the same time

Recommended workflow: Set up shift bidding requests