Companies may sometimes be required to ask their employees to work on weekends due to urgent or critical business requirements. For example, A clothing company may ask its employees to work on weekends in order to meet an increase in demand. If these business requirements are not dealt with immediately, then it’s possible that the company will face a disastrous situation. In this scenario, the most important aspect of a business is how to allocate the employees to meet the urgent business requirements on non-working days. OrangeHRM's ‘Working Weekend’ functionality is a highly useful feature that is fully capable of efficiently allocating employees who may be based in different locations of the company to work on a weekend. Once defined, the selected weekend day will effectively become a working day.
To access this feature, go to Leave-> Configure-> Working Weekend. The ‘Working Weekends' screen appears as follows.
Step 1 – Click the ‘Add’ button (towards the right-hand corner of the screen). The ‘Add Working Weekend’ screen is displayed as follows.
Step 2 – Complete the following fields.
| Field | Description |
| Name | Define a name to identify the working weekend day. |
| Country and Location | First, select the country, then click the drop-down to view the available locations. |
| Date | Date of the working weekend. |
| Full-Day/Half-Day | If the defined working weekend is a half or full day. |
| Shift In | The starting time of the shift |
| Shift Out | The ending time of the shift |
Step 3 – Click ‘Save’ after completing these fields.
How to Filter the Working Weekends
The user is also capable of filtering the previously created working weekends as follows:
Step 1 - Click the button to search for the desired working weekend(s). By doing this, ‘ The Filter Working Weekend’ is displayed as follows:
Step 2 – Complete the following fields and click on the Search button.
| Field | Description |
| From/To | Find matches between the specified dates. |
| Country and Location | First, select the country, then click the drop-down to view the available locations. |