Rotation Schedule is a plan which regulates how people or tasks rotate over a period of time. If a position (job) and tasks connected to it are considered as intensive, they need a frequent change of employees that take this job by turns to prevent overwork and exhaustion that may result into a poor performance level or a higher vulnerability to risks. Rotation schedule can be composed if you have at least two professionals pretending to occupy the same position by turns during different shifts, so they are engaged into a rotational shiftwork. Usually the length of a shift can vary between 8 and 12 hours, but specific considerations are given to the extended workdays (10-12 hour shifts).
Rotation schedules are developed to regulate shiftwork in workplaces where business or technical processes shouldn’t be interrupted to prevent spoilage of product or a constant operation should be maintained for a better utilization of costly equipment or software. Rotation schedules demonstrate a wide variety of work patterns that are designed to cover needs of every specific organization: for example if a company needs twenty-four-hour activity of a workplace it may organize a workday in two twelve-hour shifts to be taken in turns by two or more employees.