From Rigid Working Hours to Employee Autonomy – How AI-powered Shift Planning Retains Skilled Workers and Saves HR Resources

Retain skilled workers instead of constantly searching for new ones: In this presentation, learn how modern workforce scheduling intelligently combines employee preferences, shift swaps, and flexible working models – without jeopardizing operational processes. We demonstrate how HR can increase efficiency, reduce recruiting costs, and simultaneously strengthen work-life balance and employee satisfaction through digital rules and automation. New Work for shift planning: practical, legally compliant, and truly implementable.

For HR professionals, balancing operational requirements with individual life realities has become a key task. In this presentation, we focus precisely on this challenge and demonstrate practical solutions that deliver real added value:

• Pain & Gain: Why flexibility is today's lever against the shortage of skilled workers – and how preferred shifts, shift swaps, and co-determination increase retention.
• Concrete Preferred Working Hours: We show how concepts for greater self-determination (e.g., choice models, working time corridors, four-day options) can be implemented without losing operational stability.
• Processes that Relieve HR: How automated rules, validations, and intelligent planning minimize manual rework, thereby saving HR resources.
• Economic Efficiency: Less fluctuation, lower recruiting efforts, and reduced overtime lead to time and cost savings for HR.
• New Work in Shift Work: How digital planning strengthens work-life balance, increases acceptance of shift systems, and promotes satisfaction.
• Legal Certainty & Fairness: Automatic compliance with working time regulations and fair distribution of unpopular shifts – for transparent, comprehensible decisions.

You will receive concrete arguments and implementation ideas that HR can immediately use to strengthen employee retention and increase the efficiency of workforce scheduling. Ideal for HR managers who are serious about New Work and also want to act economically.