Shift patterns

DuPont schedule

The DuPont schedule covers 24 hours a day with four crews on 12 hour shifts over a 28 day cycle. Each crew works 4 nights, has 3 days off, works 3 days, has 1 off, works 3 nights, has 3 off, works 4 days, then has 7 days off in a row. Crews start a week apart, and each one averages 42 hours a week.

One cycle

• Week 1: 4 nights, then 3 days off
• Week 2: 3 days, 1 day off, 3 nights
• Week 3: 3 days off, then 4 days
• Week 4: 7 days off

Crews

4, each a week apart

Shift length

12 hours

Cycle

28 days

Hours a week

48, 72, 48 and 0, 42 on average

Longest stretch

4 shifts in a row

Time off

7 days in a row every cycle

Make it your team's

1. Rename the crews to your people, in the list on the left (the menu button at the top left on a phone). Or open a shift and add more people to a crew.
2. Change a shift's hours or first day: every shift of that series moves with it.
3. Click Share and send the link, or print a month per page. It saves in your browser as soon as you change something, no sign up.

Questions

How many hours a week is a DuPont schedule?

42 on average: 168 hours over 28 days. The weeks themselves are 48, 72, 48 and 0 hours.

Why is it called DuPont?

It comes from the chemical company DuPont, which used it to run its plants around the clock.

Other shift patterns

• 2-2-3 schedule
• Pitman schedule
• 4 on 4 off schedule
• Kelly schedule
• 9/80 schedule
• 3 shift system
• 2 shift system
• 4 crew 8 hour schedule