How to configure resources that work different max hours per day

Question

I have three groups of resources:

Group one - onshore permanent employees that work 7.5 hours max per day Group two - onshore contact employees that work 8 hours max per day Group three - offshore contract employees that work 9 hours per day

I've created individual calendars for each group with the work hours allowed per day as follows:

Group one - 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM Group two - 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Group three - 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM

However, I cannot determine how to change the max hours per day to differ across the three groups, as this seems to be a global setting for the entire project schedule.

Any advice?

Tx.

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand your comment regarding "max hours per day". Are you referring to the setting in File > Options, Schedule - "Hours per day" and "Hours per week" setting? Those settings merely translate "days" and "weeks" expressed in the duration field into the correct number of hours.

Assuming the majority of work is being done by your permanent employees, I'd set "day" to 7.5 and "week" to 37.5. If you then assign a 2-day task to a 8 hour per day contract employee, they will accomplish the 15 hours of work in less time (finish date/time will adjust.).