__Work Teams__ identify the crews that are needed to fill the posts in the workstation. They are used to create a link between a workstation and the shifts required to fill that station.

Teams are the set of employees that work together in a work station on the same shift rotation, often led by a team leader or lead hand, may be referred to as a crew, a squad, a work station complement. In a shift environment, each work station has its own work team for each shift.

Teams are defined with a general start and end date (to allow the shifts defined for a work team to change over time), a shift pattern (created on Maintain Shift Patterns ([ITSP])), and a ‘relative start day’.

For example: The following 8 day shift pattern is defined on [ITSP].
||RELATIVE DAY|| SHIFT
|1| Days 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
|2| Days 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
|3| OFF
|4| OFF
|5| Nights 7:00 pm – 7:00 am
|6| Nights 7:00 pm – 7:00 am
|7| OFF
|8| OFF

The station, ‘Fire Engine 1’ must be manned around the clock. In order to meet this requirement, 4 work teams are established.

If each team starts with a different ‘relative day’ the entire 24 hours will be covered and each team will have days off between their shift changes. This 8 day pattern can be continuously repeated to provided full coverage over a month, year or longer.

||DATE ||TEAM 1 REL DAY 1|| TEAM 2 REL DAY 5||TEAM 3 REL DAY 7||TEAM 4 REL DAY 3
|Aug 22| DAYS| NIGHTS| OFF| OFF
|Aug 23| DAYS| NIGHTS| OFF| OFF
|Aug 24| OFF| OFF| DAYS| NIGHTS
|Aug 25| OFF| OFF| DAYS| NIGHTS
|Aug 26| NIGHTS| DAYS| OFF| OFF
|Aug 27| NIGHTS| DAYS| OFF| OFF
|Aug 28| OFF| OFF| NIGHTS| DAYS
|Aug 29| OFF| OFF| NIGHTS| DAYS