Originally Posted by
bugman61
I’ll say it again. They can do this today. It happens to me. I get released early from SC for an earlier short call the next day or a trip the next day. Nobody has come up with a single scenario that a 9 hour SC lets them do that they aren’t already doing. If they wanted more guys on SC every day they don’t have to go from 12 to 9 hours, they could just have more on 12 hour SC.
I get it, their reasoning seems weird. It might just be 5% usage, but they are giving it up for no apparent reason other than to be nice. I see why people don’t trust it. But there is no concrete way that this helps scheduling.
They are giving up the 5% because they don't need it and they will use more or all of the 7 SCs now. This reduces the number of reserves required and deploys them back into the first 9 hours sooner, gaining productivity. Yes they CAN do this now but don't as a policy. Doing it all the time as policy creates more efficiency.