Shift scheduling and swaps, unified for your whole workforce
Employee Shifts Management gives HR admins full shift-planning power — shift types, qualified roles, recurring templates, and coverage views — while giving frontline staff self-service swaps, unassignment, and time-off requests, all inside Odoo.
The problem
Building an accurate work schedule and keeping it that way is a weekly grind. Managers stitch rosters together by hand, miss coverage gaps, and re-explain last-minute changes by phone — while employees who want to swap a shift, drop an assignment, or request time off have no way to do it without calling the office.
The solution
Employee Shifts Management puts hour-wise shift types, qualified work roles, and recurring templates behind one guarded state machine with automatic double-booking and role-requirement checks. Employees swap shifts, drop assignments, and request time off from their own record — every request routed through configurable advance-notice and manager-approval rules.
Everything a shift-based team needs
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Hour-Wise Shift Types
Define shift types with start and end hours and automatic duration — including overnight shifts that roll past midnight.
Qualified Work Roles
Map employees to roles such as Cashier or Supervisor so only qualified staff can ever be assigned to a matching shift.
Guarded Shift State Machine
Draft, publish, assign, complete, or cancel shifts, with automatic double-booking and role-requirement guards enforced on every assignment.
One-Click Auto-Assign
Fill an open shift automatically with the first qualified, non-conflicting employee — no manual searching required.
Recurring Weekly Templates
Save a weekly shift pattern once — type, role, department, default assignee — and reuse it indefinitely instead of rebuilding the same roster.
Bulk Template Apply Wizard
Generate weeks of shifts from your saved templates across a date range in a single action, publishing a whole cycle at once.
Peer Shift Swap Workflow
Employees request a swap with a co-worker; managers approve or refuse, and the shift reassigns automatically the moment it is approved.
Time-Off Requests That Free Shifts
Approving a time-off request automatically clears any shift already assigned to that employee for the period and reopens it for coverage.
Coverage Calendar, Graph & Pivot
See scheduled and open shifts on a calendar, and analyse coverage and utilisation by department, role, or state in graph and pivot views.
How it works
Configure
Define shift types, work roles, and recurring templates, then set advance-request and self-unassign policy in HR Settings.
Plan
Apply templates in bulk or create shifts directly, then auto-assign or manually assign qualified employees.
Self-Serve
Employees view their shifts, request swaps, drop assignments, and submit time-off requests on their own.
Track
Managers approve requests from one dashboard while calendar, graph, and pivot views keep coverage visible.
Frequently asked
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No. Employee Shifts Management is fully Community-compatible, built only on the core hr and mail modules — no Enterprise apps or dependencies are required.
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Employee Shifts Management
Plan employee shift schedules with role-based qualification checks, recurring templates, peer shift swaps, and time-off requests, all inside Odoo HR.
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