Support template

24-hour coverage, nobody works nights.

Three regional teams each working their own local day, handing over as the sun moves. The scheduling trap is that the grid only makes sense in local time — which is exactly how Weekwright stores it.

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The template

One week, at a glance.

Pattern
Follow-the-sun handover
Coverage
24/5 via 3 regional day shifts
Fits
12-30 agents across 3 sites
People in the grid
14
Scheduled hours / week
595h
Positions
Agent, Team lead

Times below are LOCAL to each region. Applied in Weekwright, each site keeps its own timezone, so the grid stays right when regions shift DST on different dates.

Follow-the-sun support schedule — weekly shift grid, one row per staffing slot.
SlotMonTueWedThuFriSatSunShift
Agent APACAgent09:0017:30×309:0017:30×309:0017:30×309:0017:30×309:0017:30×3OffOff8.5h
Agent EMEAAgent09:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×4OffOff8.5h
Agent AmericasAgent09:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×409:0017:30×4OffOff8.5h
Lead APACTeam lead08:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:00OffOff8.5h
Lead EMEATeam lead08:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:00OffOff8.5h
Lead AmericasTeam lead08:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:0008:3017:00OffOff8.5h

One row per staffing slot; ×N means that many people on that block. Times are local to the location. +1 marks a shift that ends the following calendar day.

Use this pattern when…

  • You have (or are hiring into) teams in at least two distant timezones and want to retire the night shift entirely.
  • Your work hands over cleanly — tickets and queues, not a phone conversation mid-call.
  • You would rather pay for three sites than pay a night differential and eat the attrition.

What to watch out for

  • Every shift here is 09:00-17:00 LOCAL. If your scheduler stores one org-wide timezone, this template silently becomes wrong twice a year when the regions change DST on different dates.
  • Handover overlap is not optional. Two shifts that touch at exactly 17:00/09:00 with zero overlap means whatever was in progress is dropped.
  • 24/5 is not 24/7. This pattern leaves the weekend uncovered unless one region takes it — decide which, and pay for it.

From CSV to a live schedule

Three steps, no data entry.

The download is not a PDF you print and pin up. Its columns are the ones Weekwright's schedule importer reads, so the file you edit in Excel is the file you upload.

  1. 1

    Swap in your team

    Replace the placeholder names in the Employee column with your staff. Leave Day, Start, End, and Position alone — those are what the importer maps.

  2. 2

    Upload it

    Drag the file onto the schedule page. Every row is previewed with its detected columns before anything is created, so a bad cell is a warning, not a surprise.

  3. 3

    Tell the AI what changed

    “Maya is off Thursday, cover it”. The agent repairs the week against your real availability, skills, and compliance rules instead of you re-editing the grid.

Common questions

Follow-the-sun support schedule FAQ.

Stop rebuilding the same week.

Weekwright drafts it, checks it against your rules, and lets you approve. Free for a single location.

Follow the sun support schedule template (free CSV) · Weekwright