# Weekly schedule for my workplace

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-schedule-for-my-workplace/647625>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 18, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-schedule-for-my-workplace/647625 "2013-01-18T16:53:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cbaccarani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@cbaccarani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbaccarani)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-schedule-for-my-workplace/647625/1 "2013-01-18T16:53:03Z")

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Greetings!  
I am trying to find an easier way to create a weekly schedule for my work team. I have 18 people who have to be assigned to a variety of tasks every week. Not all are trained on all tasks and there are some who are on reduced workload due to surgery, etc. There are a number of other criteria that I have to consider as well. I am highly frustrated with trying to do this by hand in excel and wonder if there isn’t an easier way… something that would be (more or less) fully automated would be ideal, so I can just enter the limitations/parameters and have it create the schedule.  
Any thoughts/suggestions?  
Many thanks!  
CB

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-schedule-for-my-workplace/647625/2 "2013-01-18T20:48:11Z")

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There is a ton of workforce maangement software out there. How much, if any, can you spend to solve the issue?