on-call schedule
Ready-duty timetable
An on-call schedule is a rotating assignment that determines which employee must be available to respond to emergencies or urgent work outside normal hours.
Common in healthcare, IT, and maintenance: I'm on the on-call schedule this weekend, so I can't drink.
The person on call may be paged at any hour and must respond quickly.
- shiftMovement or work period
- pagerPortable alert receiver
- rotationTurning on an axis
- dutyRequired moral task
- standbyReady substitute awaiting use
coverage · emergency · emergency room · night · late night · weekend · roster · shift swap · beeper · hospital · nurse · doctor · alert · backup · availability · overtime · fatigue · burning out
- schedulestimetable, calendar, itinerary, agenda, roster
- schedulingappointments, appointment, calendar, booking, bookings
on-call schedulefixed schedule
Unchanging plan of times
regular hours · 9-to-5 · nine-to-five · day shift · banker's hours
on-call schedulefixed shift
Unchanging work hours
off-duty · time off · personal time · free time · clocked out
call, schedule, called, calling, calls, caller, callers, recall, recalled