How bad was it cut? How open is your availability?
It is a little of both. I think. :)
Each store has ELMS hours that are based on the previous years sales for that week. Eschedule spits out the employee hours based on that and many other factors. That is the budget for the store. The store managers' mission is to stay as close to the budget goal as possible. If not, then corporate managers could threaten to get rid of them and find someone that will meet budget. It's nothing personal, that is how corporations work.
Our store has been a little slow this week. So, it might just be a normal slow week.
If you have new employees for the holidays, they might be taking some hours from other front end employees. It could be the manager is trying to save hours now so he can use them during Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years weeks.
It would be funny if they find out someone messed up the math when they updated the Eschedule. I have been seeing some very abnormal total hours on Eschedule. One full time employee is scheduled 5 days at 8 hours a day but, their total hours for the week is 44. One part time employee was scheduled one day for a 6 hour shift for the week. It said their total was 18 hours for the week. I sure hope they are not using the first day(the one they added during the update) to figure out the budget.
-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Thursday 29th of October 2015 07:36:27 AM
Currently, in the past two weeks, the total hours are low... then the manager went in and made it a point to cut all part time 8 hour shifts into 5 hours shifts. It's a corperate thing "cracking down on hours and overtime" meeting low budget hours at this time of the year,... when we get closer to Thanksgiving and then christmas we will be given more hours in an attempt to survive the holidays.'
Then the hours will be cut again and the cycle continues.
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