Shifts - Let non owner manage shifts
Only team members with owner role are able to manage shifts.
Would be helpfull to define shifts manager seperate from their team role.
Shifts are also assigned by supervisors, which are only team member and assigning owner role is not desired.
Kai - Uwe Dzialas
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Laura Tiilikainen
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Because of COVID-19, we have to work in some form of shifts in indoor premises. Best would be self-organizing shifts so that team members can allocate by themselves their time on-site premises and let other also know it. A vote for letting team members to manage their own shifts in Shifts.
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Patrick Martin
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My team really likes shifts to be used as "Team Calendar" but the inability to allow non-owner to approve shifts is a challenge.
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Kyla Ensor
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We prefer in most scenarios to NOT give owner rights to someone *just* so they can approve shifts. If we could set an "approver" role, that would be ideal. Thanks for considering.
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Anonymous
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Just bumping this to keep it trending. I honestly don't see the point of something like this, if all employees can't access it. My team know when they are working, they need to know when their colleagues are working. If that is implemented then I can see us using this in the long-term, but only if.
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Chuck F.
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Another vote for team members managing their own shifts, as well as assigning supervisors to groups that aren't the "Team" owner. :)
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James T
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Has Microsoft acknowledged this at all? It is a huge shortcoming. We are combining several existing SharePoint sites to a larger one with sub-sites and making everyone an owner will be hectic, however we operate on the basis that all staff manage their own time and work so completing your own Shifts is essential..
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Dominic
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This would be really nice, cause otherwise we have to set a part of the team as owner of a team, for only managing the shift plan. For me this topic is related to security, as specially when you have big teams with different roles.
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Anonymous
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Can Members please have the Add Shift and Add Time off options available to them as owners do. We were using Shifts successfully but the teams from 4 offices have been combined into one MS Team and we now cannot all be owners as the limit has been exceeded. Thus members cannot all add shifts and see the whole team. This is to be used going forward as people will be wfh or in the office, working different hours and we need to know when they are contactable.
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Georgi Kostov
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This tool is completely for teams that manage themselves. Please open different team member roles so we can adjust shifts ourselves and see when other people have their shifts.
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Anonymous
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I agree. My manager does not do the scheduling and cannot approve a shift without knowing if it has been covered. Need requests to come through the owner with the ability to escalate to the manager with comments for final approval. Not having that ability is holding me back from asking my employer to invest in the program
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Anahi
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This is absolutely needed when returning to work after Covid-19 requires a shift system. We can't have managers approving people's schedules all the time. This wastes Manager's time and also delays team member's planning of their work efficiently since they won't know if they are allowed into the shift until the Manager checks the notification.
Making everybody team owners is not an option. We need a way to let team members select a shift from the open shifts themselves. -
Dustin
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How is this still not a function migrated from Staffhub? We used Staffhub to track when team members take PTO. Now we have to make all of them Team Owners to somewhat replicate this function, and there is an unneeded approval associated with creating the request. That is a poor implementation of a product you retired.
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Anonymous
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So we actually have a Team established in “Teams” but I’m actually considering setting up a dummy team and making all the users owners just so each person can update their shift.
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Kevin
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Another vote for team members managing their own shifts, as well as assigning supervisors to groups that aren't the "Team" owner.
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Anonymous
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Agreed - we definitely need out staff to be able to edit their own shifts!
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Anonymous
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this would be quite helpful as allowing our developers to adjust their own time sheet would save our administrator lots of data entry.
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Jake
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Another vote to allow non-owners ad/modify their shifts! We would like to use Shifts within our IT department to schedule what days members of our team are in the office or working from home, and we don't need a manager to approve. If this works for us, we will be able to use it throughout our entire company.
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MJV
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Make approval by manager optional.
Like others do. -
M Haasnoot
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Because of Corona we're trying to find a solution to reserve workplaces at the office so we won't show up all at once. We're trying to use Shifts but we really don’t want a manager to coordinate this. To make it work we made everybody owner but it's kind of fragile if people don't know how to use shifts. If experienced users can make the schedule and others can assign themselves without authorization, it would be a perfect tool for this problem.
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Dennis
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I'm honestly amazed that this is not a feature. How does it make sense to make everyone that has to edit their shift an owner of the team? We have a small team of 20 people and want to have it so that everyone can edit their own shift. So that would mean we have to make the entire team an owner.
