Blink's Open Shifts tool helps shift managers advertise available shifts on the Blink feed and enables employees to apply for available shifts.
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Managers can assign the shift and notify the team member, and there is a summary in the Hub showing all the available, booked and applied for shifts for both manager and employee.
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By providing a way to advertise available shifts in the app your teams are using every day, Open Shifts will help you fill shifts sooner and with less effort.

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As a user (employee), the open shifts tool enables you to:

In the Hub on your Blink app, navigate to the Open Shifts tool.

This may be housed in different locations within the Hub depending on your organization. If you're sure it's been enabled but are having trouble locating it, try searching for "Open Shifts" in the Hub search bar, or reach out to your manager for assistance.

Clicking into the Open Shifts tool will show you a view of:

"My shifts" are always shown at the top of the page:

Scroll down past "my shifts" to view Available shifts.

(shifts you have requested will be shown with a "requested" badge):

If a manager chooses to promote shifts via the feed, they will appear in your Feed as shown below:

This is a feed post promoting a series of shifts:

This is a feed post promoting a single shift:

If viewing a feed post promoting a series of shifts, select "View available shifts":

This will redirect you into the Open Shifts tool and you can browse all shifts:

Click into a shift of interest and select "Request Shift".

Once you've requested the shift, it will be reviewed and approved by the manager or admin.

If viewing a feed post promoting a single shift, click "view and apply":

From this view select ‘Request shift’.

Once you've requested the shift, it will be reviewed and approved by the manager or admin.

Go into the Open Shifts tool from the hub and browse available shifts:

Click into any shifts of interest and select "Request shift".

Once you've requested the shift, it will be reviewed and approved by the manager or admin.

You will receive feed posts with shift updates for when:

When a shift has been assigned to you:

When you have been unassigned from a shift:

When a shift you were assigned has been deleted:

When a shift you applied to has been covered elsewhere:

Always stay up to date with your schedule by viewing ‘my shifts’ in the hub: