Shift-based hiring

<p>Shift-based hiring is a recruitment concept pioneered in <a href="/facts/Singapore/CQDkhUvD">Singapore</a> that hires people for individual shifts, rather than hiring employees before scheduling them into shifts. Originally, it was intended as an efficient way to schedule shift-based part-time work, but it is now known that this concept can be applied to any job that requires a number of consecutive hours of commitment as a shift. This hiring concept focuses on employing workers for a particular shift on that particular day, rather than focusing on employing a worker to work recurrent shifts that can become <a href="/facts/Part-time_job/vVKW48TC">part-time</a> or <a href="/facts/Full-time_job/1VrEFUxp">full-time</a> work, although the latter can be a result of employing a worker to work shifts that run at the same timing periodically. Every shift or a group of recurring shifts may be a unique job posting.
</p><p>It is also to be juxtaposed against a <a href="/facts/Zero-hour_contract/GHd4ylCy">zero-hour contract</a>, as employees are not bound by the contract to be on standby every day and to be able to work whenever the employer needs additional labour. The employee adopts a proactive role in the sense that they, after viewing all the vacant shifts, offers their service for the shifts they are willing to work for, as compared to the employer offering the employee a shift that they might not want. The bargaining power does not lie solely with the employer, since employers hire employees for one or more shifts. The employer has the flexibility to scale up or down its labour demand, while employees have the flexibility to choose the shifts they want to work.
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Shift-based hiring