{"id":7,"date":"2012-12-20T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/?page_id=32896083701"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:54:49","slug":"schedule-breaks-time-offs-staff-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/schedule-breaks-time-offs-staff-members\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Schedule Breaks And Time Off For Staff Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g61kwIoFw-Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you would want to be able to schedule breaks and time off for staff members, in case they are on leave and cannot attend your customers. SetMore\u2019s intuitive employee scheduling system lets you schedule breaks hours and time offs for your staff members.<\/p>\n<p>This can mean two things. First, you can add a scheduled break hour for each employee on each working day. This can be a \u201cLunch break\u201d or a \u201ccasual break\u201d or any other \u201cbreak period\u201d which you would want to define for each individual employee or staff member who works at your organization.<\/p>\n<p>Second, on any given day of the month, you can add a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/updates-time-off\/\">Time off<\/a>\u201d for a specific staff member. This will not hurt your existing appointment schedules but it will allow you to specify the date and time a particular staff member will be unavailable for service.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how you can schedule breaks and time off\u2019s for staff members<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/my.setmore.com\/\">Login<\/a> to your SetMore Account and click on \u201cSettings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.13849107082933187\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net\/docs\/assets\/54ae30d7e4b0934e822d10f5\/images\/54d0516ce4b086c0c09648a4\/file-AQRSeulsB4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"250px;\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2. Click on \u201cStaff Members\u201d on the left sidebar and select the staff member for whom you want to add breaks and time off\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32896083956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/select-staff.jpg\" alt=\"select staff member you want to edit the break and time off\" width=\"441\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Click the \u201cLunch\/Breaks\u201d tab and you should see an interface listing all the days of the week, as shown in the following screenshot:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32896083958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/add-breaks.jpg\" alt=\"Insert the break time for entire week\" width=\"693\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. To schedule a break hour for any given day, click the \u201cAdd a break\u201d button and decide the time interval for the break hour. Please note that you can assign multiple break hours for a specific staff member on a specific day of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32896083959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lunches-breaks.jpg\" alt=\"Fix the lunches and break time for your business\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note: The day settings remain standard for all the weeks in the month.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike \u201cBreak hours\u201d, Time offs lets you schedule off hours for a specific day of the month, without changing or disturbing the schedules of the same day for other weeks.<\/p>\n<p>5. To add a time off for the selected \u201cstaff member\u201d, navigate to the \u201cTime offs\u201d tab.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32896083960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Add-time-off.jpg\" alt=\"Add time off for the staff unavailable hours\" width=\"600\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a day of the month, choose the time interval and you\u2019re done. Please note that you can add multiple time off\u2019s for a specific staff member.<\/p>\n<p>When you have added breaks and time offs for a staff member, the changes will be synchorized across your online appointment booking page and the calendars of all your staff members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey! I am Jessie from SetMore.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to show you two different ways to schedule breaks today. Both, one time breaks and recurring breaks that happen once a week.<\/p>\n<p>First, we are going to look at how to schedule a one time break. We are going to go to staff members in settings. And then click on time off for the affected staff member. And we are going to select add time off and add the date when we won&#8217;t be available. In this case I will say May 17th. And we can select either all day or for part of a day, using the radio buttons. And we will select when we will not be available from 8:30 to 10:30. And then click add time off again.<\/p>\n<p>We are going to go back over to the appointment calendar. And we can see that we are now not available from 8:30 to 10:30 on the 17th.<\/p>\n<p>So back over to settings. We are going to see the other way to schedule time off by going to lunches and breaks. And we are going to do this for me. And this will be a break on Wednesdays from 11 to 1 and it will happen every Wednesday. And we can double check if this is going to happen every Wednesday by looking at other Wednesdays on our calendars. So we got the 9th, the 16th and the 23rd and you can actually add as many as these breaks per day as you want to. So it is a good way to break up your day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you would want to be able to schedule breaks and time off for staff members, in case they are on leave and cannot attend your customers. SetMore\u2019s intuitive employee scheduling system lets you schedule breaks hours and time offs for your staff members. This can mean two things. 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