Can anyone use Visual Rota?
Visual Rota has been designed for anyone to use regardless of their computing experience. The only problems that we hear about are related to losing files because of inadvertently saving the files to directories(folders) elsewhere in the computer, which is related to people’s inexperience in using ‘Windows’. However, whilst anyone can schedule staff, it is inevitably the most senior that actually do the job, and the reason why they have to do this particular task, is because only the most senior staff can resolve disputes about which shifts staff work. Get the schedule right and no one notices, get it wrong and everyone moans. One of the calculations that the program does, is to calculate how many ‘Earlies’ and ‘Lates’ everyone works, and then everyone can see that the system is fair. Is it possible for the computer to select the staff for each shift. Not yet, because computers are too slow and the language of computers stops them from doing ‘human’ tasks. Also, because of government l
