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Last Updated: 2026-07-10
Enable Multiple Shifts Per Day

Enable Multiple Shifts Per Day

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Set Up: Scheduling: Maintain Scheduling Organizations
 domain in the Scheduling functional area.
Workday can assign multiple consecutive shifts to workers who support multiple roles throughout a single day. Example: A worker is a sous chef from 9AM-11AM, a chef from 11AM-1PM, and a bartender from 1PM-3PM.
Workday follows the Minimum Shift Length and Maximum Shift Length validations that you’ve configured for each shift. When a worker is assigned multiple shifts in a day, the combined total of the shifts that Workday generates will be above the Minimum Daily Hours validation and below the Maximum Daily Hours validation.
Workday doesn’t place meals or breaks across shifts. Example: Shift 1 is from 9 AM to 11 AM and shift 2 is from 11 AM to 2 PM. Workday will place the break either within the first shift or within the second shift, based on meal and break rule sets.
  1. Access the
    Edit Scheduling Settings
    task.
  2. On the
    Validations
     tab, click the
    Enable
     check box for
    Maximum Daily Shifts
    .
    If you don’t enable the
    Maximum Daily Shifts
    validation, it is automatically populated to 1.
  3. In the
    Validation Value
    column, enter a value from 1-4 in this field to control the maximum number of shifts that workers can be assigned in a single day.
  4. Click
    Ok
    .
  5. Access the
    Edit Scheduling Settings
     task again.
  6. On the
    Tags
     tab, select a tag to enable Workday to assign multiple shifts of this type to workers in a single day.
  7. Select the
    Enabled for Multiple Role Assignment
     check box.
  8. Click
    Done
    .
After you enable multiple shifts per day, you may encounter performance issues when generating schedules. Workday recommends increasing the solver timeout to 10 minutes. See:Reference: Optimization Engine Performance Recommendations .