Adapt to New Shifts, Contractors, and Cleaning Crews Easily
No matter your industry, the holiday season brings unique staffing and scheduling. While most corporate offices will go down to skeleton crews, retail spaces often see a flurry of seasonal workers. With holiday shifts, pop-up crews, and last-minute schedule changes due to PTO, this time can lead to convoluted access control and security gaps.
Modern solutions like those from Alarm.com and Prodatakey offer time-based rules that make for simple adjustments and deployment. Our installations include a cloud-managed platform that makes switching up your credentials and access rules easy to fit timely needs.
Build Access Around Real Schedules
Whatever your staffing and access needs during the holidays, we’ll build rules that make workflows easy for employees while maintaining property security intact. Provide access based on groups, each getting time blocks to enter your property. For example, staff are there during the day, and cleaning crews at night.
While many of these rules work year-round, your cloud-based platform makes it easy to manage access levels and schedules to accommodate unique holiday hours or PTO. You can be as granular as you wish, with rules applying to alternating weeks, days, or shifts.
For added automation, include regional holiday calendars and have your system automatically apply restricted access during those observed holidays except for exempt employees.
Make Temporary Access Painless
With today’s access control systems, it’s also easy to provide temporary access with links, mobile credentials, or codes that expire. This is great for contractors who may be doing work while the office is empty or for temp employees who are only there for the holiday rush.
When visitors sign in through your building’s management system, they automatically receive access credentials that work only for their approved time window. For instance, a delivery driver might get access from 10 a.m. to noon. Once the time expires, the system removes access automatically without manual updates or follow-ups required.
Holiday Access Control in Action
Part-Time Holiday Help
During the holiday rush, it’s easy to manage short-term employees without compromising building security. Add part-time or seasonal staff to a dedicated “Seasonal” group with specific start and end dates. Assign shift-based access so credentials only work during approved hours. This way, you avoid lingering permissions after their employment ends while keeping scheduling simple.
Cleaning Crews
Holiday cleaning often happens after regular hours. Apply a Night Shift schedule that gives crews entry only during set times, and create an alarm exception for their arrival window. This keeps your building secure after hours while still allowing service teams to work uninterrupted. It also minimizes false alarms during late-night maintenance or deep cleaning.
Contractors and Deliveries
Contractors and delivery teams often operate on unpredictable schedules. Provide them with a temporary credential limited to a defined window. If an urgent delivery arrives outside normal hours, you can remotely unlock a specific door and automatically record that event in your audit log and pair it with video surveillance footage.
Why Choose Westco for Access Control
Our team designs access control systems that fit the way your business runs. Whether you need to manage rotating shifts or grant limited access for visitors, we’ll set clear rules that keep things organized and secure.
Choose between on-premise or cloud-managed setups and connect them with your existing alarms or video systems. This platform will adapt to your daily routines without overcomplicating operations.
We’re local to the St. Louis area and provide responsive service. When you need help adjusting schedules or credentials, we’re only a call away.
Holiday scheduling doesn’t have to create confusion. Book a quick site review, and we’ll map out groups, shifts, and access rules that match your business's operations. We’ll also set up a control system that keeps your property secure and your schedule running smoothly.
