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Send planned shifts and give employees autonomy over shifts
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If you are not on top of your tasks and shifts you might fall behind, loosing productivity.
Allowing your employees to have a say over shifts helps you to be on top of your workload, and
gives them flexibility.

Publish and send the planned week by email
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Once you have your shifts planned, click on *Send Schedule*. Select *Include Open shift* if
you would like the *Unassigned* shifts to be seen.

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   :alt: Publish and Send planned shifts in Odoo Planning Application

Choose if you just want to *Publish* or *Publish and Send*. If you *Publish and Send*, employees
will get an email that will redirect them to their planned tasks:

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   :alt: Publish and Send planned shifts in Odoo Planning Application


.. note::
   Employees will not be able to see shifts until they have been published.


Let employees unassign themselves from shifts
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Go to *Configuration* and enable *Allow Unassignment*.
From now on, when an employee opens his tasks, he can indicate his unavailability clicking
on *I am unavailable*. The shift will be opened again, allowing someone else to take it.

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   :alt: Allow Unassignment in Odoo Planning Application


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   :alt: Allow Unassignment in Odoo Planning Application


.. tip::
   Employees have portal access; users have access to the database.
