Know Who's Working, Who's Off, and Who's Free to Take the Work

On Assignment brings your contract placements and your temp bookings into one place. The calendar is built around the candidate, so each worker appears once no matter how many jobs or companies they're covering that week, with their shifts and placements alongside the days they're on holiday, resting or off sick.
Candidate-centric assignment calendar
Holiday, sickness and other availability marked from the grid
Single shift and placement detail in the side panel
Live shift, hours, pay, charge and margin totals
Bulk email, message, roll on and terminate
Configurable columns, filters and export
Give your desk one clear view of who's working, who's off, and who's free for the next booking, with fewer screens to move between.

The margin on temp and contract is made in the gaps

Unfilled days, workers sitting idle and rebookings that start too late all cost you. On Assignment shows who's working, who's off and who's free, so more of the week gets filled by people you've already placed.

Fill more of the week from the workers you have

See who has days free across the period and offer them the next booking before you go back out to advert.

Start the rebooking before each contract ends

Spot the placements coming to an end and open the conversation while the worker is still on site and still earning.

Keep pay, charge and margin in view as you plan the week

Check hours, days, pay, charge and margin for the period you're looking at, before you commit to covering it.

Act on a whole run of temp or contract workers in one go

Select the candidates, or the specific jobs behind them, then email, message, roll on or terminate together.

Run temp and contract volume without losing sight of the numbers.

Utilisation you can see worker by worker
Margin checked at the booking, not at invoicing
One shared view of who your team has out
Assignment data you can export when you need it elsewhere

FAQs

What is On Assignment?

It's a single view of the working candidates you have out right now, bringing contract placements and temp bookings together so you can see everyone on assignment without moving between screens.

Does it cover temp and contract, or just one of them?

Both. The calendar shows shifts and placements side by side, and you also get a Contract list and a Temp list depending on which workflows your agency uses.

How can a contact enter a sequence?

Contacts can be enrolled manually from their record, enrolled in bulk from Contact Search or added automatically when they enter a matching lead type or reach a terms-review date.

A worker is on three jobs this week. Do they appear three times?

No. The calendar is built around the candidate, so each person shows up once however many jobs or companies they're covering. Expand the accordion on their row when you need to see each job separately, or to pick one out for a bulk action.

Can I record holiday, sickness and other availability?

Yes. You can add a status straight from a candidate's date cell, so time off sits on the same grid as the work and you can see it while you're planning cover.

What can I do without leaving the calendar?

Open any shift or placement to review it in the side panel, add an availability status, or select a group of workers and email, message, roll on or terminate them together.

Can I get the data out to work with elsewhere?

If you have the export permission, set your columns and filters so the list shows what you want, then export it. If you don't see the option, a system administrator can enable it.

Where do the pay, charge and margin totals come from?

They're calculated live from the active shifts and placements in the period you're looking at, alongside counts of shifts, jobs, companies, hours and days. Applying a filter recalculates them, so the totals match whatever you've narrowed the view to.

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