When P&H Mining still had their mainframe, they had 6 operators who worked
standard the 3 shifts, with first shift working 8 1/2 hours, and 2nd and 3rd
shift working 8 hours. There was usually 2 people per shift, and 1 on the
weekend. They had a couple part time people who just worked weekends, and a
few people they hired on a contract basis as necessary.
I think that on 3rd shift, one of the people worked Tue to Sat, and the
other Sun through Thur. The regular operaters often worked a shift on the
weekend to cover everything for overtime pay.
P&H had a rather small shop by todays standards. They had a 115 MIPS
MP3000-H50. There were 16 3490 tape drives, and 3 printers, which were the
old impact printers. One person could generally handle the workload when
things were going well, but when there were problems, it was alway good to
have the 2nd person on a shift. First shift almost always had 2 people
because of the greater volume of phone calls.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
My boss asked me to find out information on how other sites schedule their
folks for the operations area.
Number of shifts per day:
Average number of operators on duty:
Length of shift:
Rotation frequency:
All information will be kept strictly confidential. Your company name
will not be included in any messages sent to my boss and will not be
shared
with anyone else either.
If you would like to respond offlist, that is fine.
Thank you in advance.
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