Printable Shift Schedule / Staff Rota (Free PDF)

A week's rota on one landscape page: ten staff, seven days, a start and a finish time in every cell.

Printable staff shift schedule with ten employee rows, seven day columns and a weekly hours column
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Ten employee rows run down the side, each with a name line and a smaller line underneath for the role, so bar, kitchen, floor or ward is visible without a second sheet. Seven day columns run across, each with the day name printed and a date field in the header so one blank file covers any week. The weekend columns are lightly shaded, which makes the shape of the week readable from across the room.

Every day cell is split into two lines: the start time on top and the finish underneath. That is 140 time fields, enough for a full week of a small team without squeezing. A final column on the right takes the scheduled hours for each person, and the line under the grid totals the hours for the week. The footer reminds whoever fills it in to use OFF for a day off, H for holiday and S for sick leave, so the sheet reads the same way for everyone.

All 181 fields are fillable, so a manager can build the rota on screen, print it for the staff room and email the same file to the team. Choose whether the week starts on Monday or Sunday before you download. It is one landscape page of vector rules, laid out separately for US Letter and A4, and it prints cleanly in black and white.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Choose the week start

    Monday or Sunday as the first day column.

  2. 2

    Pick the paper size

    US Letter or A4. Both print in landscape.

  3. 3

    Build the rota

    Type the dates in the header, the names and roles down the side, then a start and finish time in each day cell.

  4. 4

    Print or fill it in

    Print at 100% ("Actual size") so lines and boxes keep their exact spacing, or fill the form fields on screen in any PDF viewer.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. There is no watermark and no sign-up for your first 20 downloads each day; after that a free account keeps downloads going. You may print the file as often as you like for personal, school or business use.
Ten rows. For a bigger team print two or three copies and join them with pdfty's Merge PDF tool.
Write OFF in the cell, H for holiday and S for sick leave. The same key is printed under the grid.
No. The day names are printed but each day has an empty date field in the header, so one file works for any week of any year.
Yes. Names, roles, every start and finish time, the weekly hours column and the header fields are all form fields.
A timesheet records the hours one person actually worked, for payroll. This sheet plans the whole team's week in advance.

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