Shift schedules with magnets
You can make some really smart board systems with magnetic tape, boards and differently colored magnets. Here are some suggestions for employee whiteboards, where you can quickly get an overview with the magnets:
Hospital department plan
Most hospital departments have a large whiteboard for dividing departments, employees, shifts and patient information . These boards can be "drawn on" with black magnetic tape or dividertape.
For example, a board partition could look like this illustration:
![Example of a departent plan at a hospital](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/2788/9980/files/hospital-planner-magnetpartner.jpg?v=1721292337)
The form must be divided into horizontal and vertical columns, where the vertical columns are the "main topic". For example, outpatient clinic: under this category, it can be divided into rooms with the names of the respective outpatient clinics. This is how the schedule continues with main topics such as operating rooms, emergency room duty, living room corridor, outside the house, etc. All employees in the department each get a magnet with either a name or a picture on it. These are then moved around so that everyone in the department can at any time get a quick and visual overview of where all the colleagues are in the department - a snapshot that helps to streamline daily life at the hospital.
From the office column onwards, the columns do not need to be divided into rooms. On the far right, the magnets are placed for the employees who are not at work that day.
This system could of course also be used in other workplaces where people do not have offices or fixed places where they are usually located. Eg. in a cleaning company.
Here are some of the magnets you can use: