Your schedule will be very consistent either morning or night shift. You may not get your shift covered by partners outside your block. My store did the block scheduling for weeks but when partners got sick or were exposed upper management never stuck to the guidelines. Hopefully yours will do better.

It seems to be a little different everywhere. My store has been on block scheduling since September and before that we were on it in May and June. There are only 4 blocks: opening and closing blocks working 4 days a week, and opening and closing the other 3 days. Of course the partners working in the 3 day block get fewer hours - at most 20 hours a week, the bare minimum for keeping benefits. Everyone's assigned to one block and \~officially\~ you cannot work outside your block. At first it was a very firm rule but now not so much - we frequently have shifts covered between blocks and even have partners covering shifts at other stores, which seems to defeat the point (and of course the SM was working in all blocks to begin with). So it doesn't seem to *actually* do anything to lower covid transmission risk, it just gives Starbucks a reason to keep more partners working if someone gets infected. But what else is new?

The changeover during peak is ROUGH. We found it best to just let the times suffer a bit, and clean up the morning scene, and THEN really get going

i started at my store a couple of months ago and we were already on block schedule, so i will be of no help :(

Lol our store had had block scheduling from the beginning. Have fun 🤙🏻

any chance you could explain what block scheduling is vs other types?