Assign Overtime Work

You might at times be faced with a very constrained situation. For example, you won’t be getting additional resources and all your available resources are fully occupied with task assignments each hour of their normal working day. To use resources to decrease task durations, there’s only one thing left to do: assign overtime work.

For each hour of overtime worked, Microsoft Project calculates costs based on the overtime rate you specified for that resource (unless you indicate otherwise). Assigning overtime work can be costly, but sometimes it’s your most efficient option.

To assign overtime work to a task

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
2. On the Window menu, click Split.
3. Click anywhere in the bottom pane.
4. On the Format menu, point to Details, and then click Resource Work.
5. In the top pane, select the task for which you want to assign overtime work in the Task Name field.
6. In the bottom pane, type the number of hours in the Ovt. Work field for each resource.

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