A Smarter Week Optimizer

The Week Optimizer

The Week Optimizer picks the best combination of shifts for a given week - ones that fit together without conflicting commitments, without cutting your sleep short, and without impossible back-to-back travel between workplaces. It maximizes rather than just meets your target: it keeps working until it genuinely runs out of hours or feasible shifts, with a second pass that catches combinations a simpler search would miss (the classic case: one big shift blocking two smaller ones that would have earned more together).

It builds its own recommendations

You no longer need to create shifts by hand before running it. The optimizer now generates its own candidates from your Shift Templates - across every workplace you can work at, including agency-managed ones, not just ones you personally own. Add a template once for each workplace (a start time, and either an end time or a flexible range of hours), and it has real recommendations to work with every time you run it.

It thinks about your actual take-home pay

• Earnings are calculated and maximized as net pay (after tax), not gross - the number you see is what actually lands in your pocket
• Saturday and Sunday can now have their own pay rates instead of sharing a single "weekend" rate
• Shifts with flexible hours - e.g. starting at 8AM and working somewhere between 8 and 12 hours - are supported directly on a template; the optimizer tries each length and picks whichever fits best.

It respects your real schedule

• A template can be restricted to the days that workplace actually runs it, so you won't get recommended a Saturday shift at a Monday–Friday-only site
• Commitment conflicts, rest time between shifts, minimum sleep, travel time between workplaces, and how many days in a row you're willing to work.

See your week before you commit to it

The results page includes a Week at a Glance view - your recommended shifts laid out alongside your existing commitments, so you can see how the whole week looks before accepting anything. Recommendations also show up directly on your calendar, clearly marked as not yet added, so you can check "what would my week look like" without any leap of faith.

Try it

If you haven't already, add a Shift Template for each workplace you work at, then head to the Week Optimizer, set your target and constraints as usual, and see what it comes up with. Your target is still shown for reference - but the goal is your maximum, not just your minimum.